Perl Gtm Pool Member script question/issue

I removed the --> from line 63 and compilation gets past that, but errors out like this:

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 70, near "-> proxy"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 76, near ")"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 80, near "-> proxy"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 86, near ")"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 90, near "-> proxy"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 96, near ")"

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 131, at EOF

 

 

Looking at the code, there is a --> at the end of the line above. Removing them the only error left is the last one, and it changes to:

 

syntax error at gtmpoolmember.pl line 131, at EOF

 

Missing right curly or square bracket at gtmpoolmember.pl line 131, at end of line

 

Execution of gtmpoolmember.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

 

 

It looks like the code is not complete as that subroutine is not closed. Closing it does not improve the situation much, as I now just get a syntax error at line 132 near "}"

 

 

With regards to the --> mentioned above, if you look at lines 69, 79 and 89 you see the start of an HTML comment within the code. Could the code that makes the code all "pretty" be unintentionally munging the code as well?