Hello I am trying to truncate text between two hash keys and get all the strings in between those two strings. I have a function that can parse between two strings but when I try to parse between two strings that contain the '=>' characters I get an uninitialized variable error. Thank you monks for your endless wisdom :)

#Function call That works
my $hashData = truncateText($inputText, "begin", "end");

#Desired function call that doesn't work
my $hashData = truncateText($inputText, "begin =>", "end =>");

#Truncating Function
sub truncateText{
    #Truncates text by removing everything before and and after the pa
+ssed in variables
    my($text, $beginString, $endString) = @_;

    my $truncatedText;
    if($text =~ /\b\Q$beginString\E\b(.*?)\b\Q$endString\E\b/s){
        $truncatedText = $1;    
    }

    return $truncatedText;
}
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