Any help/guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Drink lots of fluids.

I'm not sure what kind of answer you expect. Except being new to perl, you give no indication of what you know, what modules you are familiar with, what environments you use. Nor do you give any indication what you've done so far. Any answer given can be way over the top of your head, to trivial for you to be useful, to general or to specific, or something you've already done. None of such answers is useful to you, and it would just waste peoples time.

Abigail