A script that I am using is bombing out with a "Nested quantifiers before HERE mark in regex m/^libg++ << HERE .dll$/ at d:\tmp\script.pl line 503."

the code that is at line 503 looks like:

if ( grep {/^ITEM$/} @ARRAY ) {

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this, for example can grep's behavior be modified to deal with multiple plus signs in what it is matching, etc.
If it helps, the ARRAY array contains names of files that we want to weed out, i.e., it $ITEM matches an entry in @ARRAY, then we reject it.

Thanks, Kevin

In reply to Nested Quantifier Headaches by keywest

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