here's the thing, I'm using IPC::Run to call and talk to another script, and it keeps popping up a syntax error.

i've identified that the error is coming from the eval block, and if i remove the eval but leave the statements inside of it, the error goes away.

I'm sure its got to be something blatantly obvious that I'm just overlooking, but I would REALLY appreciate any help. 
sub authUser
{
    # open two-way pipe to auth script (or die with an error)
    my($h,$in,$out,$err,$t);

    my @cmd = ( $pathToPerl, './auth.pl' );

    eval
    {
        $h = harness(\@cmd, \$in, \$out, \$err, ( $t = timeout 5 ) );
        start($h);
        $in = "$cUser\n$cPass\n";

        pump($h) while length($in);  ## Wait for all input to go
        pump($h) until $out =~ m/\n\x1E\x1E\x1D\x1E/;

        finish $h;
    }

    if( $@ )
    {
        $h->kill_kill;
        die("failed to connect to authorization module: $@");
    }
}

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In reply to identifying an IPC::Run + eval block error by EvanK

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