Re: [perlre] grouping parenthesis capture whole string instead of proper subset... why?

You could make use of chomp and Perl's "Input Record Separator":

my $setstr = 'altcategory=||';
warn $setstr;
{ $/='||'; chomp $setstr }
warn $setstr;
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Cheers,

-- Dave :-)

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