I've resolved my problem with the following changes:
First, I took 'while <IN> out of the loop, substituting
'for (@in) {'
and ahead of the loop added
'@in = <IN>;
Then I broke my pattern-search problem into two parts:
I incremented $p in a for loop as previously shown, then
$pp = "$p"
and put the escaped parenthesis and other characters in
the pattern search itself:
/p\($pp\)=/
and it ran fine
I will shortly check whether I can just use $p itself in
the pattern and fool around with arithmetic vs character
match
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David
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