Re: strange error message

No I can't send code that reproduces the problem because it is not reproducable at will. It has happened once (so far) and in a line of code some 200 lines past any changes I made to the program. It has all the earmarks of something earlier leaving a turdlet lying around and the later code is stepping in it. Besides, it appears that this error also caused the Perl interpreter/compiler to blow up. The Windows Event Viewer shows application errors for perl.exe with the description "Fault bucket".
However, for whatever help it might be the line which was attributed to the error is the last in this sequence:

 
@sess_funcs = ("F1E","F1W","F1N","F1S");
@v_funcs = ("$oev_code","$oevc_code");
@eprep_funcs = ("$oe_e","$e_e");
@ev_funcs = (@sess_funcs,@v_funcs,@eprep_funcs);
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The last block of code added to the program was some 200 lines earlier:

if (! $date_to_use) {
    $msg =  "Enter or confirm the date to schedule. \n";
    while (! $date_to_use) {
        $msg .= "  (mmmdd, mmmd, or mmm dd)\.\n";
        $intext = $excel->InputBox("$msg","Enter date","$assumed_date"
+);
        go_away(16,"Quitting as requested\.") if ($intext eq "0");
        $date_to_use = check_date($intext);
        $msg = "Date error.  Re-enter.\n" if (! $date_to_use);
    }
}
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What I am trying to understand it what is meant by trying to "coerce UNKNOWN" and what a "gv" is. I can guess that "gv" might be a global variable but I don't know that.
A Google search for the string "coerce UNKNOWN" shows other people seeing a similar message but I don't see any explanation for what it means.

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Re^2: strange error message by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2008 at 08:33 UTC
From perldiag `Can't coerce %s to string in %s (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries (typ +eglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.` [download] So I'm guessing its a bug in InputBox (whatever that is), or if one of the variables is overloaded, in one of them	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: strange error message by Narveson (Chaplain) on Aug 22, 2008 at 10:32 UTC
And since this error message template was instantiated as Can't coerce UNKNOWN to string in gv at sked.test.pl line 486 esr would be well advised to search the program text for the strings `UNKNOWN` and `gv`. Later ... or to wait for a better-informed response. Thanks, dave_the_m.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: strange error message by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Aug 22, 2008 at 13:02 UTC
The "UNKNOWN" means that the SV being stringified was not a valid type - so either its a freed SV, or a corrupted SV. Which means it's either a bug in perl or some XS code, or the OP is doing something which is known to screw up at the Perl level, like modifying an array while iterating over it or using it as function arg. Dave.	[reply]

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