Another way to keep the parentheses from being grabbed by print is to add a + in front of them, like this:

print +(split /:/)[1];
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perlfunc explains why this happens: Perl built-in functions can be called with or without parentheses, so when perl sees parentheses there, it associates them with the function call, not with the creation of a list.

-- Mike

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just,my${.02}