On Feb 3, Cy Kurtz said:

>I'm trying to write a little program to take all of the fun out of the
>daily jumble.
>
>My plan is to get a sequence of letters from the user, move the letters
>around and bounce the resulting sequence of letters off of a spell check
>dictionary until the program generates an English word.
>
>When I call grep from the command line, grep returns what I expect. When
>I call grep from perl, I get:

Are you calling grep from Perl, or using Perl's grep() function?

>not enough arguments for grep
>search pattern not terminated

Those sound like Perl error messages.  Show us your code, please.

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