isolating text in a string

Hi,

I'm trying to isolate text in a string. My string is typically of the
form:
sometext["moretext",

I would like to isolate moretext.

I tried:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $string = 'sometext["moretext",';
print $string;
my $snippet;
($snippet, $snippet) = split(/$string/,\[,2);
print "$snippet\n";

I don't seem to be able to escape the [ in the split function, so two
questions:
1. How do I escape the [?
2. What would be a better way to approach this problem?

Thanks,
Tim Bowden

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