I'm working on a simple little Perl script for a class of mine. Essentially it consists of a simple HTML Order Form that passes data to the Perl script via POST. The script then generates a typical confirmation page. The Perl interperter is giving me the following error: "Quantifier follows nothing before HERE mark in regex m/+ << HERE / at order.pl.cgi line 14" The following block of code contains line 14. It is taken directly from my textbook, so for the life of me, I don't know why it would be generating the error: 
for ($i=0; $i < $size; $i++){  #11
    ($key, $value) = (split /=/, $fields[$i]);  #12
    $value =~ s/[;<>\(\)\{\}\*\|'`\&\$!#:"\\]/\ $1/g;  #13
    $value =~ s/+/\ $1/g;  #14
    $hash{$key} = $value;  #15
}

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