You're getting these errors because you're using strict. But don't turn it off, because these errors are good! They're telling you that you should explicitly declare your variables as either package globals or lexicals (my).

In your case, just use lexicals. Add this, before you start executing any code: 

    my($currentLine, $name, $infilename);

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I've got to sort of question your program flow, though; you're looking for lines that begin with $name, right? But $name isn't defined--it has no value. So what are you trying to look for, then? Or are you trying to look for the string literal '$name', not the value of the variable name? If so, you should backslash the '$': 
    if ($currentLine =~ /^ \$name:/) {

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Also, the first line of your script is a bit odd: 
    !/usr/local/bin/perl

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Is this what you're really using? I don't think this will work. You should have: 
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl

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and while you're at it, you should turn warnings on: 
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

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In reply to Re: required explicit package error. by btrott
in thread required explicit package error. by Paav

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