in reply to Has the "require" functionality changed in Perl 5.8.1?

Since you did not specify the "other" perl versions or code and I cannot smell from here what the code looks like, I can only point you to the perldelta and associated manpages (perl56delta, perl58delta etc)

Maybe it would help to put index.cgi lines 250 - 260 somewhere in the thread...

Joost. 
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;$;=
";Jtunsitr pa;ngo;t1h\$e;r. )p.e(r;ls ;h;a;c.k^e;rs 
";$_=$;;do{$..=chop}while(chop);$_=$;;eval$.;

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