diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a643b361d8..0a430566cf 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.1c and 0.9.2
 
+  *) Make sure latest Perl versions don't interpret some generated C array
+     code as Perl array code in the crypto/err/err_genc.pl script.
+     [Lars Weber <3weber@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>]
+
   *) Modify ms/do_ms.bat to not generate assembly language makefiles since
      not many people have the assembler. Various Win32 compilation fixes and
      update to the INSTALL.W32 file with (hopefully) more accurate Win32
diff --git a/crypto/err/err_genc.pl b/crypto/err/err_genc.pl
index 5ebfa1a15e..21f1b9bd9d 100644
--- a/crypto/err/err_genc.pl
+++ b/crypto/err/err_genc.pl
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ close(IN);
 
 foreach (sort keys %out)
 	{
-	print "static ERR_STRING_DATA ${_}[]=\n\t{\n";
+	print "static ERR_STRING_DATA ${_}\[\]=\n\t{\n";
 	print $out{$_};
 	print "{0,NULL},\n";
 	print "\t};\n\n";