in reply to Pattern Matching.

my( $bleep ) = split /\\+/, $line, 2;
update: disregard the above. Here's an alternate pattern
my $bleep = $1 if $line =~ /^ \\+ (.*?) (?=\\)? /x;
on second thought, if you really wanted to use split, something like
my $bleep = (split /\\+/, $line, 3)[-2];
should work (and it does).

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