Ah ok. Couldn't really see the eventual purpose :)
General notes: declare "my" variables as late as possible: if you declare them inside a block ( delineated delimited by braces), the variable won't be accessible (generally speaking) outside that block:
my $foo;
if($somevalue) {
my $bar = "baz";
$foo = "monkey";
}
In this piece of code, $bar is only accessible inside the if block. $bar, on the other hand, will disappear (or "go out of scope") as soon as the compiler reaches the closing "}".
Declaring variables as late as possible is generally considered a Good Thing (this is probably an oversimplification, but it's a good start).
I know I've said it already, but use Data::Dumper; to inspect variables.
If you show what eventual output you want from this code, you'll probably get a response showing you one way of getting it.
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