I don't understand why you split on new lines here:

  while (<APPLIST>) {
        push @inpfile, [split /\n/];
  }

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The way you read the file in, you only get one line at a time anyway. Instead of a while loop, you should be able to just do

@inpfile = <APPLIST>;

Later, you do this

  local $/;
  open SLURP, $ifile or die "can't open $ifile: $!";
  @filedata = <SLURP>;
  close SLURP or die "cannot close $ifile: $!";

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After you undefined $/, <SLURP> will give you a scalar, so it doesn't seem to make sense to assign it to an array.

Either drop the local $/, or write $whole_filedata = <SLURP>.

In reply to Re: foreach on array by rduke15
in thread foreach on array by Anonymous Monk

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