Hi Jaap,

first of all I should apologize for not having read the bottom of this page where it explicitly says not to use <pre> tags but to use the <code> tag instead for its enhanced feature set and mainly for braking lines.

I also have to thank tye for reediting my post, and making it thus more readable. I mistook this kind intervention for some moderation by the site maintainers.
Sorry, for causing you invonvenience but this site has such a bewildering, barockesque adornment just like Perl's idiomatic syntax which makes it a bit difficult for the newbie (viz. TIMTOWDI)

Now back to the subject.
I forgot to mention that not only the piping mechanism is broken but the same goes for shell escapes from the debugger's prompt.
In my pre-5.8.0 Perls I could do this with the double bang.

e.g.