Hi, Can anyone work out why I am getting the message : Global symbol "$name" requires explicit package name at transform.pl line 20. For the code: 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;



my $input = "transfer_to_linux.txt";
   
open (INPUT, "<$input");

while (my $line = <INPUT>){
    print "here\n";
   
    
    if ($line =~ /^%(.{1,100})$/){
 print "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE\n";
 my $name = $&; 
    }
    
    my $outfile = "outfile[$name].txt";
    open (OUTFILE, "+>>$outfile");
    
    if ($line =~ /^(\d{1,6})\t(\d{3})$/){
 
 my $count = $1;
 print "COUNT: $count"; 
 my $SPSS_figures = $2; 
 print "SPSS_figures : $SPSS_figures";

 my @split = split (//, $SPSS_figures);
  
 for (my $x = 0 ; $x <= $count; $x++){
     
     print OUTFILE "$split[1]\t$split[2]\t$split[3]\n";
 
 }    
    }
}

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