Greetings all,
With just a quick glance at your code I would suggets changing your line:

my @player_rec = split '|';
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to

my @player_rec = split /\|/;
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since split takes a regular expression pattern rather than a string, unlike join.
If that doesn't help you can also limit the amount of elements the split returns to you by using the

split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT
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form of the function.

-InjunJoel