I agree with apl. You haven't showed us the code that generates that warning. That warning occurs when concatenating an uninitialized variable 
$x . "\n"

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or when interpolating of an uninitialized variable (that's the "or string" of the error message) 
"$x\n"

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Those two snippets produce identical code, thus the common warning.

You can also get the warning when interpolating into a regexp, but you get a second warning too. 

>perl -we"my $x; /$x/"
Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at -e line 1.

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On a side note, the code you showed us is problematic for other reasons 

if (($Delay_id =~ /\(\d\d/) || ($Delay_id =~ /\(\d\d\d/)){

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is the same thing as 

if ($Delay_id =~ /\(\d\d/){

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since anything the second // could match will also be matched by the first //. If you're planning on adding captures, you want 

if ($Delay_id =~ /\((\d\d\d?)/){

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In reply to Re: parenthesis regex by ikegami
in thread parenthesis regex by steph_bow

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