Any thoughts? as far as I can tell the file is open... What is going on?

Check whether it is really so:

  open (my $LISTDEL, '<', $ARGV[0]) || die $!;
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(The same applies to the other open's, obviously)

Update:

It fails because

if (@ARGV = 2){
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sets @ARGV to (2). Use ==