Hello monks, I am trying to make a script that will search through and analyze the contents of a log file. I want it to look for the string "clip" and return how many times it occurs to a variable, and print it to an output file, but Perl keeps crashing on me. Surely one of you can help? 
$playername = '';
$clipsobt = '';
$done = '';
@logfile = '';
$logfile = '';

open(LOGFILE, "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Alex\\Desktop\\doomlog.txt"
+) or die "Can't open DOOM log file: $!\n";
open(LOGWRITE,">C:\\Documents and Settings\\Alex\\Desktop\\explog.txt"
+) or die "Can't open log file for writing: $!\n";

until ($playername) {
    &askname();
}

&clipcalc();
print LOGWRITE "You have obtained $clipsobt clips.\n";

sub askname {
    print "What is your player's name?: ";
    chomp($playername = <STDIN>);
}

sub clipcalc {
    @logfile = split(" ", <LOGFILE>);
    foreach $logfile (@logfile) {
        if ($logfile =~ /clip/i) {
            $clipsobt++
        }
    }
}

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