Hello fellow Monks, I have a few questions. I am very new to Perl scripting, and I need some help with use strict; Whenever I declare use strict; at the beginning of the script, perl spits out an error where a bunch of variables are wrong. I double, triple, and quadruple checked that all of my variables are declared with 'my', but it keeps giving me that error. I am also facing an organization dilemma. As you can see, this script is very badly set up, but is there any other way to process this data? 
print "#---------mRFLoYDFrEAK42's---------#\n";
print "|         DOOM Log Parser          |\n";
print "#----------------------------------#\n\n";
if (defined $savegame) { print "Game saved $savegame times.\n\n"; }
if (defined $deathcnt) { print "Died $deathcnt times.\n\n"; }
if (defined $clipsobt) { print "You have obtained $clipsobt clips.\n";
+ }
if (defined $ammbxobt) { print "You have obtained $ammbxobt boxes of a
+mmo.\n"; }
if (defined $shelsobt) { print "You have obtained $shelsobt shells.\n"
+; }
if (defined $shlbxobt) { print "You have obtained $shlbxobt boxes of s
+hells.\n"; }
print "-------------------------------------\n";
if (defined $shotgobt) { print "You have obtained $shotgobt shotguns.\
+n"; }
print "-------------------------------------\n";
if (defined $armorobt) { print "You have obtained $armorobt Armors.\n"
+; }
if (defined $megarobt) { print "You have obtained $megarobt MegaArmors
+.\n"; }
if (defined $armboobt) { print "You have obtained $armboobt armor bonu
+ses.\n"; }
if (defined $helboobt) { print "You have obtained $helboobt health bon
+uses.\n"; }
if (defined $medikobt) { print "You have obtained $medikobt medikits.\
+n"; }
if (defined $stipkobt) { print "You have obtained $stipkobt stimpacks.
+\n"; }
print "-------------------------------------\n";
if (defined $redkcobt) { print "You have obtained $redkcobt red keycar
+ds.\n"; }
if (defined $blukcobt) { print "You have obtained $blukcobt blue keyca
+rds.\n"; }
if (defined $yelkcobt) { print "You have obtained $yelkcobt yellow key
+cards.\n"; }
print "-------------------------------------\n";
if (defined $backpobt) { print "You have obtained $backpobt backpacks.
+\n"; }
if (defined $besrkobt) { print "You have obtained $besrkobt berserk pa
+cks.\n"; }
print "-------------------------------------\n";
if (defined $secrtobt) { print "You have discovered $secrtobt secrets.
+\n"; }

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In reply to help with "use strict" and code organization by MrFloydFreak42

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