I posted a question the other day about variable interpolation in a regex and got a lot of good help, thanks. This question is about the actual GUI part of it. I'm using Tk, and it's installed ok, but when I run my script it dies when it checks the modifiers, or when it checks for the file opening without even opening the window! It's probably just a typo, but I've been looking at it too long to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w                           #
#lsearch.pl -- GUI app                     #
#to search through log (or just txt)   #
#files for a pattern. Done because  #
#NT doesn't have grep.                  #    
#-----------------------------------------------#

use strict; 
use Tk; 


my $mw = MainWindow->new(); 


#----------Labels & Entries----------*
my $f_label = $mw->Label(-text => 'Enter file for searching here:');
$f_label->pack();

my $f_entry = $mw->Entry;

my $p_label = $mw->Label(-text => 'Enter pattern to search for here:')
+;
$p_label->pack();

my $p_entry = $mw->Entry;

#------------------------------------*




#----------Checkbuttons----------*
my $cbI = '';
my $cbS = '';
my $cbX = '';
my $cbO = '';

$mw->Checkbutton(-text => 'ignore case',
    -variable => \$cbI,
    -onvalue => 'i',
    -offvalue => '')->pack();

$mw->Checkbutton(-text => 'periods match newlines',
    -variable => \$cbS,
    -onvalue => 's',
    -offvalue => '')->pack();

$mw->Checkbutton(-text => 'ignore whitespace',
    -variable => \$cbX,
    -onvalue => 'x',
    -offvalue => '')->pack();

$mw->Checkbutton(-text => 'compile RE once only',
    -variable => \$cbO,
    -onvalue => 'o',
    -offvalue => '')->pack();

#------------------------------*




#----------Action Buttons----------*
my $s_button = $mw->Button(-text => 'Search', -command => \&search(get
+_cb_values()) );
$s_button->pack();

my $x_button = $mw->Button(-text => 'Close', -command => sub {exit});
$x_button->pack();
#----------------------------------*




#----------Text Area----------*
my $output = $mw->Scrolled('Text',
            -width => 30,
            -height => 15,
            -scrollbars => 'se')->pack();
#-----------------------------*


MainLoop;


#----------Subroutines----------*
sub search{
    my $m = shift || '';
    my $f = $f_entry->get();
    my $p = $p_entry->get();
    my $results;

    

    $p =~ s/([^\w\s\\|()[\]{}^\$~+?.])/\\$1/g;

    my $re = eval "qr/$p/$m";
    die "Eval failed $@\n" if $@;

    open(FH, $f) or die "Couldn't open that file: $!";

    while(<FH>){
        if($_ =~ $re){
            $results .= $_;
        }
    }
    close FH;
    display($results);
}



sub get_cb_values{
    my $values = $cbI . $cbS . $cbX . $cbO;
    die "illegal mods" unless $values =~ m/^[ismxo\S]\z/;
    return $values;
}



sub display{
    my $stuff = shift;
    
    $output->configure(-state => 'normal');
    $output->delete('1.0', 'end');
    $output->insert('end', "$stuff");
    $output->configure(-state => 'disabled');
}
    

#-------------------------------*
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