Hey Perl gurus

I am having another problem with my perl script.

I notice that I can run this script just fine unless I add a particular variable assignment which looks completely normal to me. I must be missing something obvious if someone could please have a look.

$gmetric $gmetric_conf "--name=VVname  --value=$pVVname --type=uint32 
+--units=name";
    $gmetriC $gmetric_conf "--name=t  --value=$t --type=uint32 --units
+=t";
    $gmetric $gmetric_conf "--name='I/O per second Cur'  --value=$ioCu
+r --type=uint32 --units=ioCur";
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The script runs fine without these lines. But as soon as I re-add them it explodes.. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Here's the full code followed by the error I am getting:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Pipe;
use IO::Handle;
use IO::File;
my $system;
my @systems = ( '3par-S400', '3par-E200' );

open( MYFILE, '>>data.txt' );
foreach $system (@systems) {
    my $output = run_command($system);
    while (<$output>) {
        next if (m/^$/);
        next if (m/KBytes/);
        next if (m/VVname/);
        last if (m/^\-\-\-\-\-.*$/);
        s/^ *//;
        s/ +/\|/g;
        print MYFILE $_;
    }
}
close(MYFILE);


open( MYFILE, '<data.txt' );
while (<MYFILE>) {
    my $thisline = $_;
    chomp($thisline);
    my ( $VVname, $t, $ioCur, $ioAvg, $ioMax, $kbCur, $kbAvg, $kbMax, 
+$svtCur, $svtAvg, $iokbCur, $iokbAvg, $Qlen) = split /\|/, $thisline;
    print "$VVname      $ioCur  $ioAvg  $ioMax  $kbCur  $kbAvg  $kbMax
+  $svtCur $svtAvg $iokbCur        $iokbAvg        $Qlen\n";
}
close(MYFILE);

open( MYFILE, '<data.txt' );
while (<MYFILE>) {
    my $gmetric="/usr/bin/gmetric";
    my $gmetric_conf="-c /etc/gmond.conf";
    my $thisline = $_;
    chomp($thisline);
    my ( $VVname, $t, $ioCur, $ioAvg, $ioMax, $kbCur, $kbAvg, $kbMax, 
+$svtCur, $svtAvg, $iokbCur, $iokbAvg, $Qlen) = split /\|/, $thisline;
    $gmetric $gmetric_conf "--name=VVname  --value=$pVVname --type=uin
+t32 --units=name";
    $gmetriC $gmetric_conf "--name=t  --value=$t --type=uint32 --units
+=t";
    $gmetric $gmetric_conf "--name='I/O per second Cur'  --value=$ioCu
+r --type=uint32 --units=ioCur";
    $gmetric $gmetric_conf "--name='I/O per second Avg'  --value=$ioAv
+g --type=uint32 --units=ioAvg";
}
close(MYFILE);


sub run_command {
    my $user      = 'gmon';
    my $system    = shift;
    my $protocol  = 'ssh';
    my $ssh_flags = "-l $user";
    my $command   = "statvv -ni";
    my $space     = " ";
    my $do_command = $protocol . $space . $ssh_flags . $space . $syste
+m . $space . $command;
    my $cmd = IO::Pipe->new;
    $cmd->reader($do_command);
    return $cmd;
}
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Here's the error:

[bluethundr@cc126-200:~/perl] $:./test-foo.pl 
Scalar found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 42, near "$
+gmetric $gmetric_conf"
    (Missing operator before $gmetric_conf?)
String found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 42, near "$
+gmetric_conf "--name=VVname  --value=$pVVname --type=uint32 --units=n
+ame""
    (Missing operator before "--name=VVname  --value=$pVVname --type=u
+int32 --units=name"?)
Scalar found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 43, near "$
+gmetriC $gmetric_conf"
    (Missing operator before $gmetric_conf?)
String found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 43, near "$
+gmetric_conf "--name=t  --value=$t --type=uint32 --units=t""
    (Missing operator before "--name=t  --value=$t --type=uint32 --uni
+ts=t"?)
Scalar found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 44, near "$
+gmetric $gmetric_conf"
    (Missing operator before $gmetric_conf?)
String found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 44, near "$
+gmetric_conf "--name='I/O per second Cur'  --value=$ioCur --type=uint
+32 --units=ioCur""
    (Missing operator before "--name='I/O per second Cur'  --value=$io
+Cur --type=uint32 --units=ioCur"?)
Scalar found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 45, near "$
+gmetric $gmetric_conf"
    (Missing operator before $gmetric_conf?)
String found where operator expected at ./test-foo.pl line 45, near "$
+gmetric_conf "--name='I/O per second Avg'  --value=$ioAvg --type=uint
+32 --units=ioAvg""
    (Missing operator before "--name='I/O per second Avg'  --value=$io
+Avg --type=uint32 --units=ioAvg"?)
syntax error at ./test-foo.pl line 42, near "$gmetric $gmetric_conf "
Global symbol "$pVVname" requires explicit package name at ./test-foo.
+pl line 42.
Global symbol "$gmetriC" requires explicit package name at ./test-foo.
+pl line 43.
syntax error at ./test-foo.pl line 43, near "$gmetriC $gmetric_conf "
syntax error at ./test-foo.pl line 44, near "$gmetric $gmetric_conf "
syntax error at ./test-foo.pl line 45, near "$gmetric $gmetric_conf "
Execution of ./test-foo.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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Thanks for your expert help!