It would help if you said what the error messages are. Error messages are your friends!

Your first problem is a missing '#' on the first line. That might be a slip when pasting your code, otherwise it might be trying to execute it as a Bourne shell script.
Thereafter, you will get strictness errors because you are not pre-declaring all your variables. Try this:
#!/usr/bin/perl     
use strict;
use warnings;

chomp(my $dir = <STDIN>);

my @files;

if (-d $dir){
   opendir (my $DIR, $dir);
   readdir ($DIR);    # ignore .
   readdir ($DIR);    # ignore ..
   
   @files = readdir($DIR);
   closedir($DIR);
}

foreach my $file (@files) {
   print "$file\n";
}

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