in reply to Re^4: Help with regex for complicated key=value string
in thread Help with regex for complicated key=value string

Nevermind. I wrongly thought 
        if ($esc) {
            $esc = 0;
        }
...
        elsif ( $char eq '\\' ) {
            $esc = 1;
        }

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was identical to 
...
        elsif ( $char eq '\\' ) {
        }

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