It looks as if $edict{$count} uses a counter as its key. Perhaps it is more logical to use an array rather than a hash here?

When you do for $_ (@foo), $_ will sequentially contain the content of each element of the array @foo. Next you do $foo[$_], in other words you index into the array with the value of the element. This is almost certainly wrong, unless you are trying to implement some sort of linked list. I think you just want to use the content of each element and that is already in $_.