Error in File::Basename

Scarborough has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello fellow monks,
Really perplexed here but may be a obvious mistake can anyone see it.

my $data = XMLin("C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml");
#works perfectly
my $filename = $config->{'DRIVE'}.$config->{'JOBS_XML_FILE'}
print $filename."\n"; 
my $data = XMLin($filename);

__OUTPUT__
C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml
panic: pp_match start/end pointers at C:/Perl/lib/File/Basename.pm lin
+e 186.
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Needless to say I am panicing a little.
Updated code

use strict;
my $config = XMLin("config.xml");
my $data = XMLin("C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml");
#works perfectly
my $config = XMLin("config.xml");
my $filename = $config->{'DRIVE'}.$config->{'JOBS_XML_FILE'}
$filename =~ s/\\\\/\\/g;
print $filename."\n"; 
my $data = XMLin($filename);

__OUTPUT__
C:\core\jobs_1.xml
panic: pp_match start/end pointers at C:/Perl/lib/File/Basename.pm lin
+e 186.
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And I'm still getting the same message;
Update 2 Thanks to all the monks who have answered here. perl -v gave

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 8 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall

Binary build 809 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Feb  3 2004 00:28:51
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But this is not the problem. After some investigation I found the problem must be in Komodo which I am using to edit and run this program. When I ran it at the command line no problems XMLin read the file and and the program continued on its merry way. Strange

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Re: Error in File::Basename by holli (Abbot) on Sep 28, 2005 at 10:51 UTC
In an expression like `$filename = "C:\\core\\jobs_1.xml"` you only use the double backslashes to escape a single backslash. Here $var really contains C:\core\jobs_1.xml. But your $filename contains the double backslashes (as shown by the `print` statement), and that could be the reason for your problem. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error in File::Basename by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 28, 2005 at 10:55 UTC
In your first line of code you assign something to $data, but don't use it. Then you assign something to $filename, but we can't tell what because you don't define $config or show us where it comes from. Is there some important code missing here. Like `use strict; use warnings; use``someModule`and a line that shows use where $config came from? Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error in File::Basename by Steve_p (Priest) on Sep 28, 2005 at 16:58 UTC
The panic itself is caused by an eval statement which is probably executed somewhere in the XMLin() call. Unfortunately, without also having the data in the files, `$filename` and `config.xml`, and what versions of Perl or the modules you are using, your problem a cannot be resolved.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error in File::Basename by dcd (Scribe) on Sep 28, 2005 at 19:40 UTC
The panic message you printed reports an error in File::Basename, but you should also indicate the version number of perl, and where you got it `perl -V` [download] output would be valuable. As others have said, the function XMLin is not part of the core perl, so it is very difficult for anyone to reproduce the problem without more information. Do you think you could reproduce the problem without XMLin? (obviously, there must be some other code that you didn't reproduce in your post, right :-)	[reply] [d/l]