I am trying to open a file and extract certain contents of the file and place it in a different file. My code is not throwing error but its running without producing an o/p here comes my code 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 

my $filein = "";
$filein = $ARGV[0];
#print "$filein";

#$fileout = "";
#$fileout = $ARGV[1];

$argcnt = $#ARGV + 1;

if ($argcnt != 1) 
{
     print "usage: perl extract.pl input_file\n";
}
else {
print "I am here !!!";
print "$filein";


open(MYINPUTFILE, "$filein") || die ("could not open file");
#open(MYOUTPUTFILE, ">$fileout");

@data = <MYINPUTFILE>;

close(MYINPUTFILE);

#while(<MYINPUTFILE>)
 
 foreach $line (@data)
 {
# my($line) = $_;
chomp($line);
 
 print "check1";
 if ( $line =~ m/^.*\|.*(\|.*\|).*(\|.*\|.*\|.*\|).*(\|.*\|).*\|.*\|.*
+\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\
+$/ ) 
 {
 #my($zip,$name,$mm,$dd,$yy) = ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5);
print "check2";

$var1 = $1;
$var2 = $2;
$var3 = $3;

#my($first, $last) = split(/ /, $name);
# $line = sprintf("%-16s%-10s%02d/%02d/%04d%5d",
# $last,$first,$mm,$dd,$yy,$zip);
print $var1.$var2.$var3 
#print MYOUTPUTFILE "$line\n";
 }
 }
}
print "check4";
#close(MYINPUTFILE);
#close(MYOUTPUTFILE);

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The sample input file which has lines like as follows 
OR|xxxxx61|xxxxxxx|xxxxxxx|-|xxxxx|-|xx|xxxxx|xx|-|xxxx|BEAVERTON|OR|x
+xxx|TN[xxxxxxx]|x|x|HASxxxxxxxx|x|xxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxx|1|Vxxxx|
+4xxxxxxx|-|ALOHORxxxxxxxxxx

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In reply to Parsing delimited file contents by idy

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