Hi, I need to split | delimeted line but with escaping potential \| strings. I'm playing with Text::Balanced but I'm not getting the right results. Say I have a line like
1|str|foo\|bar|goo|2323
I need it to be split into the following fields:
1,str,foo\|bar,goo,2323

The code: 

use Data::Dumper;
use Text::Balanced qw/extract_multiple extract_delimited/;

$x=q[1|str|foo\|bar|goo|2323];
@a=extract_multiple($x, 
  [sub {extract_delimited($_[0],qq{\|} )}],
  undef,
  0);

print Dumper(@a);

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will return 
$VAR1 = '1';
$VAR2 = '|str|';
$VAR3 = 'foo\\';
$VAR4 = '|bar|';
$VAR5 = 'goo|2323';

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which is way wrong. And plain split will split on \| as well as plain |..
Any hints on the right (or smart, or both :) way to do this?

In reply to Trouble splitting pipe delimited by kpiti

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