perl -e in recipes

Can we use perl -e as a filter in a recipe?
I'm getting the following error.  I'm not too
familiar with what setuid is. Is this a procmail
or a perl issue?

### filter out the [PHP] ###
# -n puts code in a while loop
# -e executes code
# s/// and print both assume $_
:0fhw
| $PERL -ne "s/\[PHP\]//; print;"

procmail: Program failure (255) of " $PERL -ne "s/\[PHP\]//;print;""
No -e allowed in setuid scripts.