in reply to I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error - how can I make this work?

Run your script with the command perl -wc script.cgi. This forces a compile with warnings. The warnings this script produces is:
syntax error at deleteme.pl line 9, near "= ;"

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I'm not going to offer any more help because you should easily be able to diagnose the issue for yourself from here.

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