im trying to make this part of my code work and im stuck for ideas... 
    while ($out !~ m/^[sSfF]{1}$/)
    {
        print ("Do you want to output to (S)creen or to (F)ile?\n");
        chomp($out=<STDIN>);
        print("\nInvalid input.\n Please type either S or F.\n");
    }
    if ($out =~ m/^[sS]{1}$/)
    {
        print $output;
    }
    elsif ($out =~ m/^[fF]{1}$/)
    {
        FILENAME:
        {
            while ($save !~ (m/^[a-zA-Z]{1}[a-zA-Z_0-9]*$/))
            {
                print ("Please enter filename:\n");
                chomp($save=<STDIN>);
                print("\nInvalid input.\n Please begin with a letter a
+nd do not add extension, it will be added automatically.\n");
            }
            if (-e $save)
            {
                
                while ($overwrite !~ (m/^[nNyY]{1}$/))
                {
                    print("\nFilename exists. Overwrite? (Y) or (N)\n"
+);
                    chomp($overwrite=<STDIN>);
                    print("\nInvalid input.\n Please type either Y or 
+N.\n");
                }
                if ($overwrite =~ (m^/[nN]{1}$/))
                {
                    redo FILENAME;
                }
                else
                {
                    open(DATA, ">$save")|| die "Couldn't open $path fo
+r writing: $!\n";
                    print DATA $output;
                    close (DATA);
                }
            }
            
        }
    }

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can anybody see whats going wrong or any better way of coding this? i keep getting an error "Search pattern not terminated at perl.pl line 121." basically its the: 
                if ($overwrite =~ (m^/[nN]{1}$/))
                {
                    redo FILENAME;
                }

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thats giving me grief, and is causing the error. because if i get rid of that snippet it works fine, but then it doesnt do hat i want it to. hope you guys can understand what im talking about. cheers!

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