My cgi file errors out with 'Premature end to script headers'. I'm using CGI::Carp to output the errors to the browser. I've come across this error before, and I believe I have the most common problem solved with 'print $q->header;' This script, which grabs info from a table and prints a report, worked fine on this database installation on another server. I'm reviving it and continuing on a different machine. I checked the apache log, and it indicates a compilation error on line 7:

Tue Feb 10 22:28:12 2009 error client 127.0.0.1 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at H:/xampp/cgi-bin/generate_report.cgi line 7.\r, referer: http://localhost/select_report.php?school_name=ACES
The first few lines look like this: 

#!c:/Perl/bin/perl -w

# PERL MODULES WE WILL BE USING
use Net::Telnet;
use Net::Telnet::Cisco;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use dbConnect;

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Line 7 is 'DBD::mysql;' and that is currently installed in the library and is version 4.007. Any suggestions?

Regards,
Scott

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