Get and install perltidy (available from CPAN). Tidy will tell you exactly which unmatched " or brace is causing problems. Other than that it can be helpful to move an

__END__
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tag slowly up from the bottom of the script once the message goes away you know that the problem is somewhere after the end tag. Also try doing

perl -c script.pl
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so that the code doesnt actually execute.

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