Programs of the file → processing → file can easily been written using <>

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<>) {
   chomp;
   ...;
   print ...;
}
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The program would be used as follows:

perl script.pl infile > outfile
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The line is present in variable $_. Check it and skip the print when it's not the value you want.