I've started playing around with perl just a week ago

Some comments unrelated to your question:

• Avoid using global variables. Use lexical variables for file handles.

  open my $fh, "text_file_with_words.txt" or die;
  while (my $line = <$fh>) {   
     ...
  }
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• $! contains an error message when open fails.

• I prefer to use the three argument form of open. It has fewer possible surprises.

  open(my $fh, '<', $qfn)
      or die("Can't open input file \"$qfn\": $!\n");
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• (my $var1, my $var2)
  can be written as
  my ($var1, $var2)

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