diff --git a/PR.md b/PR.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2319c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PR.md
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# fix(flag): honor full separator length when splitting map key=value pairs
+
+## Problem
+
+Map flags support a configurable key/value separator via the `sep` tag. When the
+separator is more than one byte long, the tail of the separator leaks into the
+parsed value:
+
+```go
+type T struct {
+	Map map[string]string `cli:"m" sep:"=>"`
+}
+// parsing -mkey=>val yields Map["key"] == ">val", want "val"
+```
+
+Internally:
+
+```go
+splitKeyVal("key=>val", "=>") // ("key", ">val"), want ("key", "val")
+splitKeyVal("a::b", "::")     // ("a", ":b"),   want ("a", "b")
+```
+
+The default separator is `=` (single byte), so the common case is unaffected;
+the defect only appears for multi-character separators.
+
+## Root cause
+
+`flag.go`, `splitKeyVal`:
+
+```go
+index := strings.Index(s, sep)
+if index == -1 {
+	return s, "", nil
+}
+return s[:index], s[index+1:], nil
+```
+
+`strings.Index` returns the byte offset of the start of `sep`, but the value is
+sliced from `index+1`, which only skips a single byte of the separator instead
+of its whole length.
+
+## Fix
+
+Skip the full separator length:
+
+```go
+return s[:index], s[index+len(sep):], nil
+```
+
+## Test
+
+Added `TestMapMultiCharSep` in `cli_test.go`, covering both `splitKeyVal`
+directly and a map flag parsed through `parseArgv` with `sep:"=>"`.
+
+- Gate: `go test ./...` -> ok (PASS, exit 0, all packages)
+- `go build ./...` -> exit 0
+- Counterfactual: reverting `flag.go` makes the test fail with
+  `splitKeyVal("key=>val", "=>") = ("key", ">val"), want ("key", "val")`.
+
+Note: `go vet ./...` exits 1 both before and after this change, due to
+pre-existing example issues in `example_test.go`
+(`ExampleNumOptionFunc_* refers to unknown identifier: NumOptionFunc`), which
+are unrelated to this fix.
diff --git a/cli_test.go b/cli_test.go
index ab79c43..c19b90c 100644
--- a/cli_test.go
+++ b/cli_test.go
@@ -727,3 +727,25 @@ func TestDecoder(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Nil(t, flagSet.err)
 	assert.Equal(t, v.D, customT{K1: "string", K2: 2})
 }
+
+func TestMapMultiCharSep(t *testing.T) {
+	// White-box: split on a multi-character separator must not leak the
+	// separator tail into the value.
+	if k, v, _ := splitKeyVal("key=>val", "=>"); k != "key" || v != "val" {
+		t.Errorf(`splitKeyVal("key=>val", "=>") = (%q, %q), want ("key", "val")`, k, v)
+	}
+
+	// Public API: a map flag configured with a multi-char sep.
+	type T struct {
+		Map map[string]string `cli:"m" sep:"=>"`
+	}
+	clr := color.Color{}
+	v := new(T)
+	flagSet := parseArgv([]string{"-mkey=>val"}, v, clr)
+	if flagSet.err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", flagSet.err)
+	}
+	if got := v.Map["key"]; got != "val" {
+		t.Errorf(`map value = %q, want "val"`, got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/flag.go b/flag.go
index 55b71cf..b57c0e4 100644
--- a/flag.go
+++ b/flag.go
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ func splitKeyVal(s, sep string) (key, val string, err error) {
 	if index == -1 {
 		return s, "", nil
 	}
-	return s[:index], s[index+1:], nil
+	return s[:index], s[index+len(sep):], nil
 }
 
 func minmaxIntCheck(kind reflect.Kind, v int64) bool {