What's causing the error? A missing right curly or square bracket at line 495 seems more than descriptive.

You should be aware that it might not be located exactly at line 495.

sub name { }

You ought to read perlstyle and improve the readability of your code (it'll help you spot errors like these almost instantly).

Here is a good read on debugging (link care of jepri ).

update: I don't know what a "certain" array is, but i'd suggest you check out perlfunc:undef and perldata (perlfunc:delete is not what you're looking for).

 

______crazyinsomniac_____________________________ Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"