Shell Programming and Scripting

That's the crazy bit, I'm not calling this function at all yet (!?!)
I've checked through the rest of the code and I'm not defining a variable called server or servers in any manner elsewhere.
I'll be using this function to track the number of connections to two different sybase backends to determin which one the application is currently pointing to, but that section is still unused.
Perl's calling it a syntax error by the looks of it, but I can't see how it possibly could be. It's making my head hurt.

At least it's working so far but I have a feeling I've done what era suggests and introduced a brace or quote someplace that's really confusing things. Not that I can find it anyplace and I'm generally careful with my formatting so problems like that are obvious...

Ah well, if I do find it, I'll post back here. Meantime, I'll press on and add it to the "it's a mystery file"

I'm interested in seeing your 'perl -V'. Is it possible that you are using a version either too old or too new, or from the unstable branch (say 5.7.x)?

It certainly looks like something someone at comp.lang.perl.misc may be interested in seeing ....

Interesting... It's a really old perl (5.005_03), I'll try a newer interpreter and see if the problem persists. Will report back