in reply to special character substitution

Works for me:
$_ = "T}\@T...T}\@T{"; s/T\}\@T.*T\}\@T\{/\\(bu/sm; print;

Output:

\(bu
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Re^2: special character substitution
by bill b (Initiate) on Jun 10, 2013 at 20:16 UTC
    Thanks. I'm an idiot--I was inadvertently erasing the \ in another part of postprocessing. Sigh. thanks again, bill