Alas for those who proclaim Death to Dot Star!

I have no clue yet on why you are getting this bug, but I had another idea for a work-around. Can you make your expression non-greedy without it breaking?

@outLine = split(/(<.*?>)/,$line);
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If that works, you at least have a work-around to split the line as you wanted until a real fix is found.

Update: One more idea. Have you tried tracing the failing case by adding:

use re 'debug';
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