Hello yeti, and welcome to the Monastery!

of course I am now getting a different error

As you are “very new to Perl,” I will draw your attention to the following excellent tutorial from the Monastery’s archives:

• Basic debugging checklist

In particular, it’s a good idea to begin each script with:

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
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Hope that helps,

Thanks, that'll be very useful.

As it turns out, my error was a simple missed ";". I'm going along nicely now.