in reply to pattern match a name from stdin
You add chomp($file).
print "$num_entry\n";Also you are printing $num_entry which is not declared or used anywhere, check it.
Curly brace missing in your coding.
You coding works fine for me if i add that curly brace.
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Regards,
Anniyan
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