I tried out kyles suggestion of putting in the '/' before the 4processor but get the error message: 
after call to bind cpu:WARNING:failed to bind process xxxxa0 PID 3720 
+to processor SCALAR(0x15f1a8)(rcode 256)
/usr/sbin/pbind: must specify at least one pid
usage: 
        /usr/sbin/pbind -b processor_id pid[/lwpids] ...
        /usr/sbin/pbind -U [processor_id] ...
        /usr/sbin/pbind -Q [processor_id] ...
        /usr/sbin/pbind -u pid[/lwpids] ...
        /usr/sbin/pbind [-q] [pid[/lwpids] ...]

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The processor variable is populated in one other method too before the bind_cpu is invoked. In this case it looks for other processes and binds to the the same processor: 

sub get_cpu_used_by_other_process
{
        my $other_mgr = shift;
        my $proc_id = locate__process_id( $other_mgr );
        my $processor = undef;
        my $pid = undef;

        my @cmd_output = `$os_command_table{$^O}{pbind} -q 2>/dev/null
+`;
        die "ERROR:failed to retrieve the bound processors\n" unless (
+ $? == 0 );
        ##### increase the weight of processors based on used or not #
+####
        foreach ( keys %{$proc_id} )
        {
                $pid = $$proc_id{$_};
                next unless defined $pid;
                foreach ( @cmd_output )
                {
                        $processor = $1, return \$processor if /proces
+s\s+id\s+${pid}\s*:\s*(\d+)
$/;
                }
        }
}

}

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In reply to Re: converting from string to SCALAR when using strict "refs" by usrlocal
in thread converting from string to SCALAR when using strict "refs" by usrlocal

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