a good practice to get into, when you finish a given quest perl file is do the following from a commandline:
perl [name of file] [return]
basically run the script against the REAL perl interpreter. if you have a syntax error, perl will complain and you can go and fix it. the problem you faced here is that the server, being written to be as fault tolerant as possible merely gives up if it cannot parse the perl script properly. i had this same issue and banged my head for a day, then finally i said, i wonder if its a syntax issue. ran the script against perl, and voila, my answer appeared in the nice error message spat out by the interpreter.
hope this helps in the future for you.
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