[MacPerl] Sequence Error?

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

When I attempt to run a script in bash under mkLinux that works fine under
MacPerl, I get a weird error on the command line that is something like:

Sequence[?(root@localhost/cgi-bin)]#

I could have some of that wrong, but the point is that the prompt begins
with Sequence followed by ? and the script won't run. After monkeying around
with it for a file, I found that the offending portion is the grep line of
the following:

opendir(DIR, $directory) or
    die 'cannot open Commentary directory';
@files = grep { /^(?:(?!_).)*$/ } readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

I'm just trying to create a list of files in a directory and am filtering
out some that have a _ in their names. If I change the line to

@files = readdir(DIR);

it works fine in mkLinux, but I lose filtering. So, is this a Mac thing, a
Linux thing, or what? Thanks.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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