Hi. Thanks. There is so much information with this site. I think I am responding mainly to soonix and LanX.

What happens if you add another Newline before the "}"?

I tried this and the Line X (previous email) error went away but the Line X plus 300 still remained. I got curious about the other white space type of characters. Here is a presentation from the offending code/comment some of which I can remove, and have no errors from Eclipse (and EPIC).

;

        #  print $result;        
    }

This is a ascii dump of the above (compliments of Notepad++)

3B0D0A0D0A09092320207072696E7420
24726573756C743B09090D0A097D
    

The ascii characters
3B => ;
0D => CR
0A => LF
09 => Tab
23 => #
20 => space
70 => p

74 => t

7D => }
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I found nothing suspicious with the above. Oddly there are 2 tabs after comment "print $result;"

Does the file compile with perl -c ?

Yes it does.

C:\u\Perl_Eclipse_IDE\OBD2_control>perl -c OBD2_control_test_02.pl
OBD2_control_test_02.pl syntax OK

C:\u\Perl_Eclipse_IDE\OBD2_control>
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This seems to suggest my problems are an issue with Eclipse (and EPIC). I feel I am up for a learning curve with EMACs. It difficult to appreciate an editor having the function of an IDE. Are there any first suggestions for someone running perl on windoms 10 ?? (where best to Emac download from)

Regards JC......