Ah, I see, your file Time/Format.pm has nothing to do with the CPAN module of the same name... (that explains a number of things :) — Side note: although you can of course do it - i.e. store your code with a file name/path differing from the module's package name - I would personally advise against doing so. It only confuses people, especially if a public module of the same name already exists...

As to your actual problem, have you made sure the DBI module is loaded before you're using its constants, as in 

    ($type == DBI::SQL_DATE)? 8 :
    ($type == DBI::SQL_INTEGER and $sth->{PRECISION}->[$i] > 15 )? 10 
+:
    ($type == DBI::SQL_NUMERIC and $sth->{PRECISION}->[$i] > 15 )? 10 
+:
    ...

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In case of doubt, put a use DBI; somewhere near the top of your Format.pm file (btw, you are using the regular CPAN DBI module, are you? :) — That should make the constants known, and thus avoid the "bareword not allowed" errors. (I have no idea why your code apparently did work with 5.8.0, but that'll be a moot point once you have it working again...)

In reply to Re^3: OS upgrade affecting perl causes all codes to abend by almut
in thread OS upgrade affecting perl causes all codes to abend by wtolentino

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