Still very much a newbie to Perl and programming in general and finding this a bit of a challenge

I have the following bit of code and either get an uninitalised value in the print command or in the match statement.

Why?

#! usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @allrecords;
my $record;
my $beginning_annotation;
my $ending_annotation;
my $alignment_section;
unless (open (BLAST, "result.fasta")){
    print "Can not open data file \n";
    exit;
}

$/ = "BLASTP 2.2.3 [Apr-24-2002]";
@allrecords = <BLAST>;

foreach $record (@allrecords){

   ($beginning_annotation, $ending_annotation, $alignment_section, $re
+cord) = @_;

   ($$beginning_annotation, $alignment_section, $$ending_annotation)
    = ($record  =~ /(.*^ALIGNMENTS\n)(.*)(^  Database:.*)/ms);


print $beginning_annotation;
}
exit;

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I have checked that the seperator works

Thanks in advance

Catherine

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