Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately after start byte 0xc3) in pattern match (m//) at /Users/spiros/.... line 90, <$fh> line 5.

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return $n if ( $token =~ m/^$term/i );

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SV = PVMG(0x1c6c2a0) at 0x1ab6a28
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0x2dd2d80 "alto"\0 [UTF8 "alto"]
  CUR = 4
  LEN = 15
  MAGIC = 0x2dd30b0
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_utf8
    MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_utf8(w)
    MG_LEN = 4

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SV = PVMG(0x1c6c2a0) at 0x1ab6a28
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0x2dd2d80 "ba\303\261o"\0 [UTF8 "ba\x{f1}o"]
  CUR = 5
  LEN = 15
  MAGIC = 0x2dd30b0
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_utf8
    MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_utf8(w)
    MG_LEN = 4