Thanks for the advice.
For the meantime, the prototype mismatch errors are proving to be non-fatal, though annoying.

My intent is to look into rewriting the script in the new year using DBI drivers as I'm told that the Mysql module has been obsoleted

ref: http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-3.0008/lib/Mysql.pm#DESCRIPTION

My concern is the inability to call the method "last_record" on 2 of 12 files.
My understanding is that this method returns the zero-based number of the last record in the .dbf file. We use it to set the upper bound for looping through every record.
As stated, only on 2 of 12 files can this method not be called.

Can a structural abnormality in the FoxPro .dbf files be causing my grief?

In reply to Re^2: Can't retrieve last_record by AIM Systems
in thread Can't retrieve last_record by AIM Systems

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