Some points to remember:

• 'use strict' should be declared early.
• I am not sure what you are doing, but based on the code above, you should make sure you declare your variables when using 'use strict'. You never declared $infilename, $currentLine, or $name.
• Again, in the code above, you never opened IN or OUT.
• Yet again, you never grabbed the user-entered text using the STDIN filehandle.
• If you are just going to use the lines from IN in that 'while' loop, you could just:

  while (<IN>) {
      #do something
  }
  close IN;
  [download]

I hope this helps.

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

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