your code,

this is a test /test123?
$item1 =~ m/ \/(.*) \? /;
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As per your regular expression ,searched pattern requires space before and after '?'.

But here searched pattern is not having space before and after '?'.
So use the regular expression,

$item1 =~/\/(.*)\?/;
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$1 will have test123.