When I run into a problem with code that writes to a file, I like to test it writing into the same directory the perl is being run from to make sure it's not a file path issue. i.e.:

open($CONFLICTS, '+>', "data.txt") or die $!;

print $CONFLICTS "@data";
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Then it's easy to check in the same folder your perl code resides to see if it wrote the file.