Greetings mrbbq,

You have a single-quote just before $tar_file that doesn't match the double-quote at the end. You should either change the single to a double, or (and better) just drop the quotes.

use strict;
my $tar_file = 'anything.tgz';
$tar->read( $tar_file, 1, { 'extract' => 1 } );
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