why isn't this working (perl Question)

\_ SMTP quoth Eden Li on 4/23/2001 09:56 as having spake thusly:
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\_ It has a lot of magic indeed. But as he comments says
\_ about one line in his script:
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\_ # Impossible to do properly with a regex, I make do by allowing at most one
\_ level of nesting.

Hum, I wonder if that nesting issue could be fixed with the nesting of
5.6 +.

David