in reply to Surprised by split
The '\' has a special meaning in a double-quoted string. And _also_ a special meaning in a regex. You'll need two of them in order to break through both special meanings.
But the first argument to "split" should be a regex. So don't pass it a string :)
See... now I'm wondering about split qr(\|) and split m/\|/.
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