If the file has pipes as a delimeter. Do I need to split the line wih pipes?

You are already doing this but you probably want something more like,

    @var1 = split/\|/;
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Is there any way that I could pass the string to a variable then I would get the path at the end of the string

When you seperate the line with pipes "|" you put the values of the entire line in an array. All you have to do is point the path variable to the last element of the array. Something like,

    $path = $var1[$#var1];
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Hope this helps, I'm not sure I understood you question properly..

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