Without seeing the specifics of your code, it's going to be hard to tell.

When I try to duplicate your results, I get the "expected" result, not a "02".

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $blob = <DATA>;
if ( $blob =~ /PROGRAM=(.*)\\/ ) {
    print "Dollar One = $1\n";
}

__DATA__
SAOHXXX20090209XXX020607XXXchazerpap07_PRD_00XXX1XXXN0013IT_QALS-LWEDT
+L000216V00 0820090207X000800000000X000800000000X000833333333X00082009
+0207N0004JESTL000268V0 034 000X00340000000000000000000000000000000000
+X003 400000000000XXX00000000000000000000000X0034222222222222222222222
+2222222222333X00 340000000000000000000000000000000000N0014<%_TABLE_MA
+KT>L0003204V0003???X0006???? ??X0006??????N0009IT_LIST[]L00018V0019Ta
+ble IT_1042x76XXX0TH034\PROGRAM=ZKQMR_ INSP\DATA=IT_LIST[]TH100Table 
+reference: 56 TH055TABH+ 0(20) = FFFFFFFCC883EE98 FFFFFFFCC895FBB800X
+XX000000TH055TABH+ 20(20) = 000000380000006800000002000002F8F FFFFFFF
+TH047TABH+ 40(16) = 0400000000004040001024C401800000TH033store = 0 xF
+FFFFFFCC883EE98TH033ext1 = 0xFFFFFFFCC895FBB8TH033sXXXhmId = 0 (0x000
+00000)TH033id = 56 (0x00000038)TH033label = 104 (0x00000068)TH033fill
+ = 2 (0x00000002)TH033leng = 760 (0x0 00002F8)TH033loopXXX = -1 (0xFF
+FFFFFF)TH026xtyp = TYPE#000328TH033oc cu = 16 (0x00000010)TH039access
+ = 1 (ItAccessStandard)TH034 idxKind = 0 (ItIndexNone)TH034uniKind = 
+2XXX(ItUniqueNon)TH030keyK ind = 1 (default)TH032cmpMode = 8 (cmpMany
+Eq)TH016occu0 = 1TH016groupCntl = 0TH016rfc = 0TH016unShareable = 0TH
+017mightBeS hared = 0TH020sharXXXedWithShmTab = 0TH016isShmLockId = 0
+TH016gcKind = 0T H016isUsed = 1TH016isCtfyAble = 1TH039>>>>> Shareabl
+e Table Header Data <<<<<TH033tabi = 0xFFFFFFFCC881FDE8%M
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And the results are:

C:\Code>perl parse_blob.pl
Dollar One = ZKQMR_ INSP
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