Did you pray this prayer?\n";<br>
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Naaah, I didn't even read it. Just gave a peek. Not really interested in prayers.

I used strict and warnings and I believe the she bang line should work on most modern computers

Whoa! This is the cleanest and most correct Perl code you posted thus far, the only error being a spurious <br> tag that for perl is an attempt to read from the br filehandle:

aleph:~ [17:41:57]$ perl -c 600859.pl
Name "main::br" used only once: possible typo at 600859.pl line 30.
600859.pl syntax OK
aleph:~ [17:42:06]$ perl 600859.pl >/dev/null # A better place!
Name "main::br" used only once: possible typo at 600859.pl line 30.
readline() on unopened filehandle br at 600859.pl line 30.
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Incidentally, for multiline strings you may be interested in HERE documents which are slightly less error prone and all in all, cleaner: look them up in perldoc perlop.