Testing with my new indentations, lemme know what you think: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
my $query = CGI->new;
my $usedpw = "logfile.txt";
my @chars;
print $query->header;

# opening for reading
open(USEDPW, "< $usedpw") or die "poo poo on reading $!";
flock USEDPW, 1;
# Storing the file handle, not a scalar, into an array for full readin
+g
my @used_pw = <USEDPW>;
close(USEDPW);
# remove trailing whitespace
chomp my $used_pw;

while (<USEDPW>)
    {
        my $pw = @chars[map{rand @chars} (1..17)];
    }
unless ($_ ne my $usedpw) {
        print "Your unique ID is: $pw\n";
    }

my $pw;
open(USEDPW, "> $usedpw") or die "crap on me for writing $!";
flock USEDPW, 2;
print USEDPW "$pw\n";
close(USEDPW);

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