Overall nice. There are a handful of idioms that would save typing though.

First, when you're iterating through a list, you don't have to keep an index around: 

my @items = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
foreach my $item (@items) {
     print "Got item $item!\n";
}

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Next, you don't need to stringify a variable if you want to bind it to a regex.

Third, there's a lot of duplication. From my skimming of the code, it's in your conditionals. There are plenty of ways to handle this, from stringing conditionals together to calling a subroutine. I'd do it all in just one regex, though: 

if ($item =~ /^(foo|bar|baz)/) {
     # do several things
}

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You can probably get rid of the '+' in your opens. It's pretty rare that you need both read and write access. The rest of it is pretty solid, though you might want to be careful calling subs with a leading ampersand... it'll pass along the contents of @_. I prefer sub() to pass no arguments explicitly.

Update: Renamed to fit new title.

In reply to Re: Document maintenance script by chromatic
in thread Document maintenance script by blacksmith

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