Nothing important to say, except bravo! :)

Anyway some advice you could follow if you really insist :) (I can't test your script)

use strict; use warnings;

'for' loops: try the perlish syntax

for(my $i = $#data; $i > 0;  $i--) {
    if ($data[$i] =~ /\|/) {
        $last_line = $data[$i];
        $i=0; # correct line found, exit loop.
    }
}
# or #
for my $line (reverse @data) {
     $last_line = $line;
     last if $line =~ /\|/;
}

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line 70 - you don't need @result:

( $directory,
  $search_string,
  ...,
  $scan_down...) = split('|',$last_line);

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line 136: you could use 'join':

print SAVED_SEARCH (join '|',
    $directory,
    $search_string,
    ...,
    $scan_down...,
    "\n");

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In reply to Re: Noob could use advice on simplification & optimization by brx
in thread Noob could use advice on simplification & optimization by bgreg

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