The conf file you are trying to load contains garbage characters.

The relevant code in your external script is: 

my(@conf);
if(defined($opt{config_file})){
   
   my($buf);
   $buf = `cat $opt{config_file}`;
   
   # slurp
   if (eval($buf)){
      print STDOUT "$me: Read config from $opt{config_file}\n" if $opt
+{verbose};
      }
   else{
      die "$me: Error reading config from $opt{config_file} (fix it!)\
+n\n";
      }
   }
else{
   @conf = @default_conf;
   }

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This is a horrible way of loading configuration, but it works: 

$ cat 1174639.conf 
@conf = (
   {'step' => 8,  'blur_fwhm' => 4,  'iterations' => 20},
   {'step' => 6,  'blur_fwhm' => 3,  'iterations' => 20},
   {'step' => 4,  'blur_fwhm' => 2,  'iterations' => 10},
   {'step' => 2,  'blur_fwhm' => 1,  'iterations' => 10},
   );

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$ cat 1174639.pl
use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';
use Data::Dumper;

my $file = '1174639.conf';
my $buf = `cat $file`;
my @conf;
eval( $buf );
say Dumper \@conf;

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$ perl 1174639.pl
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'blur_fwhm' => 4,
            'step' => 8,
            'iterations' => 20
          },
          {
            'step' => 6,
            'blur_fwhm' => 3,
            'iterations' => 20
          },
          {
            'blur_fwhm' => 2,
            'step' => 4,
            'iterations' => 10
          },
          {
            'blur_fwhm' => 1,
            'step' => 2,
            'iterations' => 10
          }
        ];

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Do you think this is due to compatibility issue between Perl version 1.2.0 and Perl version 5.0

Definitely not. The 1.2.0 version number you cite is just the version number of the Nlpfit software.

Hope this helps!

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: perl and Docker by 1nickt
in thread perl and Docker by IAperl

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