The part of the program that is giving me trouble is below, as I said before it was working fine on my home computer, but when I try it on my work computer it always prints the number you select -1. For example if the user selects 7 I am wanting it to print out $lines6. 
use warnings;
use strict;

my @lines;
my $filename = shift;

open (IN, "$filename") or die ("Cannot open file :$!"); 
while (my $line = <IN>) {
    if (!($line =~ /\s*[a-qs-zA-Z]/)) {
        push (@lines,$line);
    }
}

close (IN) or die("Cannot close file: $!");

print "Enter link number you want to view:";
my $number1 = <STDIN>;
chomp $number1;

if ($number1 > $#lines | $number1 <= 0) {
    print "Number outside of array"
    }
    else {
        print "$lines[$number1-1]";
        }

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