in reply to Re^4: Parse string and extract word after specific pattern
in thread Parse string and extract word after specific pattern

> the documentation should state that the first argument is always treated as a regex

It does at the very beginning of split:

split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT split /PATTERN/,EXPR split /PATTERN/ split

There are only three exceptions, space, empty regex, and /^/ .

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,