Why does my Perl regex complain about "Unmatched ) in regex"?

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Published on 2010-03-16T22:02:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 23:41 UTC
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if($title =~ s/(\s|^|,|\/|;|\|)$replace(\s|$|,|\/|;|\|)//ig)

$title can be a set of titles ranging from President, MD, COO, CEO,...

$replace can be (shareholder), (Owner) or the like.

I keep getting this error. I have checked for improperly balanced '(', ')', no dice :(

Unmatched ) in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\s|^|,|/|;|\|)Owner) <-- HERE (\s|$|,|/|;|\|)/

If you could tell me what the regex does, that would be awesome. Does it strip those symbols? Thanks guys!

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