I'm playing around with creating RSS feeds, and found this tutorial over at perl.com. But, I'm having a devil of a time with one line in the example, perhaps someone can shed some light on it for me? The line pasted in below is supposed to (according to the comments in the example), grab a headline between certain tags.

$headline = $stream->get_trimmed_text('/b') \ 
if ($tag->[1]{class} =~ /^h[12]$/);
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... I've pasted in the code exactly, and played around with spaces, formats, everything I could think of! But I come back to an error that says

Backslash found where operator expected at rss.cgi line 32, near ") \"
        (Missing operator before \?)
syntax error at rss.cgi line 32, near ") \"

Any advice or pointing out of obvious facts I may have missed is greatly appreciated!!

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