I've recently started programming perl and I'm stuck on a piece of code.
Here's the problem (excuse that fact that I've never had formal coding training/been programming for about 2 mos..): 

  $row_arr_today = $res_sched&#91$row]  ##@res_sched is an array o
+f arrays

  for $person(1..$#{$row_arr_today}) {    ##cycle through the array$ro
+w_arr_today from element 1

       $name = $row_arr_today->&#91$person] ##assign to $name the 
+$person element in that array 
          foreach $row(0..$#namearray) {  ## @namearray is another arr
+ay of arrays 

              $testname = $namearray&#91$row&#93[0];
             if ($testname =~ /($name)/){}  ##this line returns the er
+ror:
##Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- H
+ERE X*/ at loadsched.pl line 66.    What basic piece of info am I mis
+sing?  Thanks

};

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