What I am doing wrong?

If have a flat file that is | delimited 

% cat flatfile.pipe
COL1   | someother data|122343221|blahbalhbalh

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other times I get flat files that are : delimited 

% cat flatfile.colon
COL1   : someother data:122343221:blahbalhbalh

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so ...

I wrote a perl script that does something like this ... 

% cat splitit.pl
#!/sur/bin/perl

use Getopt::Std;

getopts( 'c:' );

while(<>) {
   chomp;
   (@columns) = split /$opt_c/;
}

foreach $col (@columns) {
    print "[$col]\n";
}

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so ... when I do ... 

% ./splitit.pl -c':' < flatfile.colons

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... it get output ... 

[COL1   ]
[ someother data]
[122343221]
[blahbalhbalh]

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... which is good. But when I do ... 

% ./splitit.pl -c'|' < flatfile.pipes

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... I get output ... 

[C]
[O]
[L]
[1]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[|]
[ ]
[s]

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... you get the idea I hope because I sure don't! :)

Thanks

Edit ar0n -- fixed formatting

In reply to split $c by Anonymous Monk

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