I am trying to refactor a lot of files to use the English module and I am running into problems that are totally puzzling to me using Perl RegExp's with my interpreter. My code is intended to find the first line containing my search text and replace that line with whatever was there plus a blank line and an additional line for 'use' of the English module. Unfortunately the searched for line is becoming the third line and the 'blank line and additional line' are preceding it - a reverse of the desired order, which boggles my mind!!! Hellllpppp!!! here's the code in question:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w ###-DDEBUGGING -d -Dslt`

use Env;
use English ( no_match_vars );

local $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR;

my $searchPattern = "(^\#!/usr/bin/perl.*?\n)";

my $insertion = "\nuse English \( no_match_vars \);\n";

#my $content = "#!/usr/bin/python\n";
my $content = "#!/usr/bin/perl\n";

print "content = \n$content \n";
print "insertion = \n$insertion \n";

$content =~ s?${searchPattern}?${1}${insertion}?xmsp;
print " content now = \n$content \n";
exit 0;

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