I tried adding a =head TITLE element as in your first example (with blank line before and after)

Did you use =head1 TITLE, like I showed, or =head TITLE like you showed?

and I'm still getting the same behavior. Crashola

The exact same error message, or a different error message? If different, please quote it here.

Using this exact text, perldoc blah.pl processes just fine for me on Windows Strawberry Perl 5.26.2 and on an ancient CentOS 4.6 with Perl 5.8.5:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

=pod

=head1 TITLE

My Documentation

=cut

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In reply to Re^3: Mysterious crash of perldoc by pryrt
in thread Mysterious crash of perldoc by Textorix

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