Is the last next unless statement used correctly? I want it to go to the next iteration in the while loop.

Syntactically, yes.

Am I right in assuming that $do_I_pick_up_request and $When_process_request will have been picked up when returned from the Check_file_name_conditions sub using return ($do_I_pick_up_request, $When_process_request)?

You need the following for that:

my ($do_I_pick_up_request, $When_process_request) = Check_file_name_co
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For your variable checking, use 'eq'. '==' is for numeric comparison.

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