Hello fellow monks,
Really perplexed here but may be a obvious mistake can anyone see it. 

my $data = XMLin("C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml");
#works perfectly
my $filename = $config->{'DRIVE'}.$config->{'JOBS_XML_FILE'}
print $filename."\n"; 
my $data = XMLin($filename);

__OUTPUT__
C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml
panic: pp_match start/end pointers at C:/Perl/lib/File/Basename.pm lin
+e 186.

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Needless to say I am panicing a little.
Updated code 
use strict;
my $config = XMLin("config.xml");
my $data = XMLin("C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml");
#works perfectly
my $config = XMLin("config.xml");
my $filename = $config->{'DRIVE'}.$config->{'JOBS_XML_FILE'}
$filename =~ s/\\\\/\\/g;
print $filename."\n"; 
my $data = XMLin($filename);

__OUTPUT__
C:\core\jobs_1.xml
panic: pp_match start/end pointers at C:/Perl/lib/File/Basename.pm lin
+e 186.

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And I'm still getting the same message;
Update 2 Thanks to all the monks who have answered here. perl -v gave 

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 8 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall

Binary build 809 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Feb  3 2004 00:28:51

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But this is not the problem. After some investigation I found the problem must be in Komodo which I am using to edit and run this program. When I ran it at the command line no problems XMLin read the file and and the program continued on its merry way. Strange

In reply to Error in File::Basename by Scarborough

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