Use of uninitialized value $var8 in substr at test.pl line 24, <IN> line 2.
That warning message means that you have split a line of your input file which has fewer than 7 pipe characters.

You could change: 

         my ( $var1, $var2, $var3, $var4, $var5, $var6, $var7, $var8, 
+$var9, $var10, $var11, $var12, $var13 ) = split( /\|/, $line );    #v
+ariables are separated by commas.
        my $type = substr( $var8, 0, 3 );

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to: 
        my @vars = split( /\|/, $line );
        if (@vars > 7) {
             my $type = substr( $vars[7], 0, 3);
             # do something
        }

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You should also wrap your error/warning messages inside "code" tags.

Update:

if($type eq 131) {
should be: 
 if($type eq '131') {

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or:
 if($type == 131) {

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In reply to Re: New to Perl - Script Error by toolic
in thread New to Perl - Script Error by sumnerdu

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