Completely untested, so take it with a grain of salt. 
my $pessoais = "produtos/pessoais.dat";
my $mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";

my $search_for = "a";
my $search_field = "all";

my @results = () 
search_database($pessoais, $search_for);
my $count = @results;  # I'll assume that @results is a global

foreach my $result (@results) {
    my ($key, $description, $speed, $ref, $qid) = split(/\|/, $result)
+;
    # the print MAIL confuses me as I can't see where it
    # was opened or where %FORM is from (params?), so 
    # I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
}

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