Count Zero, thanks for your reply, I inserted your text one space after the last word in line 6:

"or die "Error is opening gpx file: $!;

as you had instructed, with no luck, the error is below. I also tried some different combinations of positioning the " quotation marks and leaving them out all together.

paul@intern-PM:~/Desktop/San Diego$ perl gpxscript2 String found where operator expected at gpxscript2 line 6, near "'sandiegopark.gpx' "or die "" (Missing operator before "or die "?) Bareword found where operator expected at gpxscript2 line 6, near ""or die "Error" (Missing operator before Error?) syntax error at gpxscript2 line 6, near "'sandiegopark.gpx' "or die "" Global symbol "$fh_in" requires explicit package name at gpxscript2 line 8. Execution of gpxscript2 aborted due to compilation errors.

with no quotes I receive the message: paul@intern-PM:~/Desktop/San Diego$ perl gpxscript2 syntax error at gpxscript2 line 6, near "file:" Global symbol "$fh_in" requires explicit package name at gpxscript2 line 8. Execution of gpxscript2 aborted due to compilation errors.

Sorry, I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I was also looking at a XML parser, for you can do a save as .xml, do you suggest something like that?

In reply to Re^2: Parsing a .gpx file with Geo::Gpx by paulmorrow
in thread Parsing a .gpx file with Geo::Gpx by paulmorrow

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