Before I get into anything else, have you considered that your search string uses double quotes and your '/' may need to be escaped?

You don't need to escape / inside double quotes. There are really very few characters that require escaping inside of (Perl) double quotes. Namely, \, @, $, and the delimiter character (which is " for "this" and . for qq.this., etc.).

Having heard something like this twice in as many days, I felt it was important to comment on this.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")