Thanks haukex - swift reply!

What, me, not using strict and warnings? ;-) Have changed 'test.pl' to the following:

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Hello world!\n";

my $file='test-response.pl';

unless (my $return = do $file) {
    warn "couldn't parse $file: $@" if $@;
    warn "couldn't do $file: $!"    unless defined $return;
    warn "couldn't run $file"       unless $return;
}

print "Did that work?\n";

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Output is now

Hello world!
couldn't do test-response.pl: No such file or directory at test.pl lin
+e 10.
couldn't run test-response.pl at test.pl line 11.
Did that work?

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The file 'test-response.pl' is certainly there.... (the files are on my desktop and I'm calling them from a command prompt having changed directory to the desktop, by the way).

In reply to Re^2: 'do' command is dead? Surely not? by ACI
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