Perl: how to match between to points in a string

My data is something like this:

abc: words I don't want | words I want
abc: remove these | more words I want
abc: drop this | A few more important words
abc: not these | Yes these too
abc: delete this | and these as well
...

Can I build a substitution that will remove the beginning stuff up to the pipe and leave every thing else? I have tried some wild card things like:

$line =~ s/abc:.+|//;

but that does not work. Can it be done?

 

Do you have to use perl ? else you can use cut -d "|" -f.2

 

I figured it out thanks for your input though!