Now my problem is...

• most of your statements are missing the final semicolon
• "print" is not supposed to be capitalized
• there shouldn't be a comma after the filehandle in the print statement
• you have the wrong sigil on the variable named "ctr" ("%ctr" needs to be "$ctr")
• you seem to be confused about the usage of sprintf, and how to provide values for placeholders in the format string (those numbers in square brackets next to the variable names don't belong there)
• setting "$emph" to "****" doesn't do you any good, since you never print any record with that value.

(whew -- it's all a bit of a mess) Better hit a book or two a little harder... To get you started, here's a cleaned up version:

$newphone = $phone;
$newphone =~ s/\D+//g; # NOT " = =~ " !!

$phonelength = length( $newphone );

$emph = ( $phonelength == 4 or $phonelength == 10 ) ?  "" : "****";

printf( PHONELIST "%16d %100s\n", $phone, $abs_filename);
printf( SUMMARY "%3d %16d %12d %4s %100s\n", ++$ctr,
        $phone, $newphone, $emph, $abs_filename );
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