Hi there dear Monks, I'll start explaining my situation before I ask the question. I have to write an application that sends some data to a module over tcp/ip which contains information for this module. This data itself is a record of information formed like : 
[from][to][typea][typeb][message]

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Note that all these fields can get big (up to 10 MB per field). So 
[script1.pl->
  Makes ItemData from some fields
  and puts it as rawdata in a database
] 
---> DBI --->

<--- DBI <---
[script2.pl->
  reads ItemData from a database
  sends this data over a socket
  which is connected with script2
  script1.pl knows nothing about
  the structure of ItemData and also
  doesn want to know.
] 
--> TCP/IP ---> 
<-- TCP/IP <---
[script3.pl
  recives ItemData and knows how ItemData is formed
  script3.pl will get all the fields in ItemData
  and will use this to talk to hardware with it ..
  (for example a FAX modem or an SMS machine or
  whatever .. not importand yet) 
]

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Ehm.. intro is getting to big :) so the Question : What to do with "ItemData" ? (mainly at script3.pl of course. generating it isn difficult) This is my test.pl, maybe you Monks know a better way to deal with my "ItemData" problem ? 
$Ione = "Item|One";
$Ione =~ s/\|/\&verti\&kaal\&stre\&epke\;/g;

$ItemData = "$Ione|Ite\@m tw\%o|It\"em Th\$ree|Item \\our|Item \'five|
+Item \/six";
#
# Should be split up in :
# Item|One 
# Ite@m tw%o
# It"em Th$ree
# Item F\our
# Item 'five
# Item /six
#
print $ItemData."\n\n\n";

@words = split(/\|/, "$ItemData");  

for (@words) {
    s/\&verti\&kaal\&stre\&epke\;/\|/g;
    print $_."\n";
}

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In reply to splitting Any data on a delimiter an putting it back togetter by freax

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