Finder error occurs when search string returns no results

I have three finders - all of them generate the following errors on the page when searching for something that does not exist:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /var/devel/sites/all/modules/finder/finder.module(1625) : eval()'d code on line 1

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /var/devel/sites/all/modules/finder/finder.module(1625) : eval()'d code on line 1

Looking at the code I see line 1625 is:

1625 print eval("\?\>". $code);

If I print out the value of $code at that point it says:

There are no results to display

I was able to stop the error with this hack:

1625     if ( preg_match("/^.*There are no results to display.*$/", $code) != 0 ) {
1626       print eval("\?\>". $code);
1627     }else{
1628       print "$code" ;
1629     }