Error I am receiving is the following...

Can't locate object method "new" via package "IO::File" at ExampleForM
+onks.pl line 73, <FH> chunk 5.
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Here is the code that is generating this error...

#!/usr/bin/perl-Tw
use strict;
use Text::ParseWords;

my $fname = "CommaSample2.dat";
my $toggle = ' ';
my @data;
my @PER_Data;
my @major_PER_Data;

BARE: {

open FH, "< $fname" or die "Cannot open datfile: ", $!;
    while (<FH>) {
        if (/"PER"/)
       {
           $toggle = 1, next if /^"PER"\s*$/;
           }
   last if /^"EOS"\s*$/;

        die "Unknown or missing record tag: Got $_ on line $., datafil
+e $fname.$/" if $toggle eq '';

        chomp;
        @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
        if ($toggle == 1)
        {
                {
                   $toggle = 0;
                   @PER_Data = ($data[0], $data[1], $data[2], $data[3]
+);
                }
          push @major_PER_Data, [@PER_Data];
            }
        $toggle = '';
    }
}

my $i = 0;
my $Num_OF_PER = 0;
my @PER_Item;
my @PER_Entity;
my @PER_Name;
my @PER_Color;
my @PER_Date;

foreach my $PER_item (@major_PER_Data)
  {
  $i = 0;
  foreach my $PER_subitem (@{$PER_item})
     {
     $PER_Item[$i] = $PER_subitem;
     $i++
     }

  $PER_Entity[$Num_OF_PER]      = $PER_Item[0];
  $PER_Name[$Num_OF_PER]        = $PER_Item[1];
  $PER_Color[$Num_OF_PER]       = $PER_Item[2];
  $PER_Date[$Num_OF_PER]        = $PER_Item[3];
  $Num_OF_PER++;
  }

my $r = 0;
print "Personal Info...\n";
while ($r < $Num_OF_PER)
{
  print  "$PER_Entity[$r] ";
  print  "$PER_Name[$r] ";
  print  "$PER_Color[$r] ";
  print  "$PER_Date[$r];\n ";
  $r++
}


my $output = new IO::File(">xxx.xml");
my $writer = new XML::Writer( OUTPUT => $output, DATA_MODE => 1, DATA_
+INDENT =>4 );

$writer=>xmlDecl( "UTF-8", 1 );

$writer=>startTag( "application" );
$writer=>endTag  ( "application" );

$writer=>end();
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Here is line #73 Specifically,,,

my $output = new IO::File(">xxx.xml");
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I realize that this code does not make total sense, but please just help me with this error and do not suggest that I take out any existing logic. I have trimmed this down quite a bit for purposes of posting this on the page and what I think I need help with IO file reading, but please help me out if you can. peace, LOVE and ((code)) basicdez

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