Are you positive that you have given us correct information? The reason I ask is that the warning you are getting doesn't even jive with the code you've shown us.

Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./pancho-ini line 1430.

That states the unitialized value is being used in a "string eq". The only string eq you have in the code you've shown us is on line 1434. Is that your actual code? (Do you really have sub called "foo"?

-sauoq
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