I quoted the entire line 51 and the problem went away. Just so that's clear, checking syntax of:
...
format STDOUT_TOP =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @|||||||||| @||||| @|||||
q{User Command CPU% Mem%}
.
$^ = 'STDOUT_TOP';
...
gives
$ perl -c pm_format_syntax.pl
pm_format_syntax.pl syntax OK
I haven't used format in almost 15 years, so I can't give a definitive reason as to why this fixed the problem. My rationale for trying the quoting was the presence of the % characters in the line immediately prior to the line which generated the error. Other monks may provide a more detailed explanation.
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