I think you'll need to show a little more code for this to make sense. The fact that the perl interpreter seems to think that "ne" is a string that is supposed to be initialized with a value leads me to think that you have a mis-matched bracket somewhere, or some similar sort of typo that is throwing off the syntax in your cgi script. Or maybe it's a mis-matched quote operator somewhere, or a misplaced "#".

If the editor you use for writing perl scripts supports jumping to a matching bracket, use that facility on the open and close parens, open and close curlies, and any nearby square brackets on and near the line that triggered the error. Syntax highlighting, which renders quoted strings and comments in a different colors than the rest of the code, can also be a big help.

Nevermind -- sorry to have misread the warning message.

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