I have the below code written as part of a larger perl script. The idea is that if the file has something in it process it, otherwise say "there is nothing to do". I keep getting syntax errors with it and am not sure why. 
system "rm file2";
open(FILE2, ">file2");

open(MYINPUTFILE, "file");
                  
if ( -s file ){
    while(<MYINPUTFILE>) {
        my($line) = $_;
        chomp($line);
        print FILE2 "$line\n";
        print FILE2 "you need to do this\n";
        print FILE " \n";
    } else {
    print FILE2 "There is nothing to do\n";
    }
}

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the specific errors are:

syntax error on line 51 near "} else"
syntax error on line 54 near "}"

In reply to if/while/else problem by ddrew78

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