note Thilosophy <i>Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 2000)</i> <p>Do you have an (accidental) multi-line string starting at line 2000 ? <code> if ( $me3400(1) == /cp me340x-metrobase-mz \/tftpboot\/$u\/me340x-metrobase-mz/ ) </code> <p>Not sure what this means, but you probably want to use the regex matching operator <code>=~</code> rather than the numerical <code>==</code>. <p>What is <code>$me3400(1)</code> (I don't even get the syntax)? <p>Since you are looping over a file line by line, is this supposed to be a comparison for the current line? 657372 657372