Throw them away florida had a problem with people taking xans with g 37 . and unfortunately passing . Do not take or sell them . What ' s your general location I ' ve only heard of them being in Florida . <| sep |> What the hell ? Did he start to spin and just keep gunning it ? <| sep |> getting some HTF vibes here . pretty good . <| sep |> Man , I haven ' t touched perl in a while . But right of the bet , your while loop while my $ lines my $ in would never be executed , for several reasons . First the usage of ' my '. Consider this snippet you ' re assigning the value $ in , not comparing it to $ lines . Or it ' s your intention ? Third you never use them in the first place , they both empty , even without ' my ' Edit also whole logic seems kind of broken to me , could you elaborate ? Because I don ' t see how you ' re planning to compare read files inside this loop