Ordinarily, I'd agree with you, but I get the impression that the OP's code works as-is, and he's just trying to figure out what it does and how. My guess is that the whole thing is in double quotes, and what perl actually sees is: 

BEGIN { $^I = ""; }
LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) {
    s[value-of-SOURCE/value-of-SAMS/][]g;
    s[value-of-SOURCE/value-of-SAMLIB/][]g;
    s[value-of-SOURCE/value-of-SMCLIB/][value-of-SOURCE/value-of-KENO/
+]g;
    if (not m[^value-of-SOURCE/]) {
        s[value-of-SOURCE/][$${OBJECT}/]g;
        print $_;
    }
}

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That $${OBJECT} in there still seems wrong, though, and the OP is ambiguous about whether this is working code or not, so I'm pretty far from sure about this.

In reply to Re^3: Command line question by kyle
in thread Command line question by igotlongestname

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