That solution is wrong.

What if the string contains a newline? Or multiple newlines? Anything that follows after the newline will not be removed.

I could suggest using s/...//s but I'm not going to do that. This code will be slower then it has to be - and it doesn't give the information you want. It just starts removing text from a | until a newline.

My suggestion is the same as ysth's: Re: Removing digits until you see | in a string