Thanks, that set me in the right direction. This is Active Perl, so there's no recompile option available to me, but I did go and upgrade to the latest version, and it seems that the necessary support has been added.

Thanks for the help.

at http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl you can also download the actual source-versions to compile by yourself. If you need other versions, you could try ftp://ftp.activestate.com/ActivePerl/src/

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

This is Active Perl, so there's no recompile option available to me,

There is always a recompile option if you have a compiler (if you don't, well you don't).