I think fletch has nailed this one so I just thought I'd make a general OT observation here about reading files with Perl for your future reference.

Be careful when using code like this: @lines = <FILE>;. What you're doing here is known as slurping. In other words you are reading the entire file into the @lines array and thus memory. This may not be a problem with small files but might present a problem when dealing with large files. Consider using the following code for reading files: 
my $file = "/path-to/somefile";
open(FIL, $file) || die "Couldn't open $file - $!\n";
while (<FIL>) {
   #do stuff with each line of $file
}
close(FIL);

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In reply to [OT] File Slurping. by vek
in thread Opening up executable file by Anonymous Monk

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