I cannot reproduce that locally, but it still looks like a precendence problem to me.

Try changing your open statements and stop mixing, ie, do this

open( TMP, ">$tmp" ) || die( "A grim and horrible death" );
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or do it like this

open TMP, ">$tmp" or die "A grim and horrible death";
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I believe the second method is considered more Perlish.

Mik
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