You trie to tie a variable to an empty class. You haven't shown the code, but likely, line 78 looks like:

tie %foo, '', ...
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tie %foo, $bar, ... # and $bar is empty
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So you will now have to find out why you're trying to tie something to the empty class (the main program). Likely, you're just missing the tie-class parameter in that line.