i am very new to pearl and have just written my first program i am trying to decrypt a file which contains acii text and is converted in a caesar shift the key is 45 and i have written the following code but cant get it to ru where am i going wrong?? the code is as follows 



#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

Open (cypher.txt, "C:\perl\cypher.txt") || die "cannot open cypher: $!
+ ";
Open (results.txt, ">C:\perl\results.txt") || die "cannot write result
+s: $! ";




while ($l != E_O_F) {

    $l = getc(cypher.txt, "C:\perl\cypher.txt");
    if (item ord ($l) - 45 <= 0) {
        $l = item chr (128 - (45 - (item ord ($l));
    } else {
        
    $l = item chr (item ord ($l) - 45);
    }
    print "results.txt $l";
    }


}

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