my @backslash_delimited_parts = split /\\/, $string;

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my ($date, $time, $disk, $user) = @x[1,2,12,16];

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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"'