my @parts = split /\|/, $line;

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my ($first, $second, $third, $fourth, $fifth, undef) = split /\|/, $string,6;

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perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'