use Text::Balanced qw (
                        extract_delimited
                        extract_bracketed
                        extract_quotelike
                        extract_codeblock
                        extract_variable
                        extract_tagged
                        extract_multiple
                        gen_delimited_pat
                        gen_extract_tagged
                       );

my $source = 'Hello World, #name#!';
my ($cfml_expr_match, $next);

#eval {
    $cfml_expr_match = gen_delimited_pat(q{#},q{#});
    $next = extract_delimited($source, '#', '', '#');
#};

if ($@) {
    print "Hmm.. got this: $@\n";
}

# some code here...

print "\n";