The main problem is finding the particular call to the string eval that is causing the problem. What I do for these situations is:

• use grep (or your code editors search facility) to find all of the calls to eval
• insert print STDERR "before eval: <$sEval>\n" Although in this case you might want to print out only a substring rather than the whole string for evaluation.
• If you don't mind a being a bit wordier, instead of the above, you can insert the following instead print STDERR "before eval \@ line " . __LINE__ . " of file " . __FILE__ . ": <$sEval>\n"
• insert print STDERR "after eval\n"; after each eval.
• Watch what happens

That should at least help you isolate the particular eval that is causing the problem. However, your real issue is a 7000 line file being eval'd at once. Once you know what string is being eval'd, I would recommend that you put the code in a file and test it running as a normally compiled script.

7000+ lines is awfully long for any script or module, even a test script. I usually try to keep them under 1000 lines and no more than 3000 in really unusual circumstances. You might want to think about how you can trim that down by

• moving repetitive code into subroutines
• data into support files
• splitting up the code into separate more focused modules (i.e. test framework modules)

Best, beth

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