I'm trying to get this string: 
Foo bar <tag>#var#as</tag> rules.

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and split it into this: 
Foo bar
<tag>
#var#
as
</tag>
rules

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I've tried a few approaches using the split() command; however, here's what I've been able to produce with this: 
perl -MData::Dumper -e '@t= split(/(?=<)|(?=#[^#]+#)/,"Foo bar <cfoutp
+ut>#var#as</cfoutput>"); print Dumper(\@t);'

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output: 
$VAR1 = [
          'Foo bar ',
          '<cfoutput>',
          '#var#as',
          '</cfoutput>'
        ];

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which is slightly different from what i wanted to achieve. For example, I don't want o have '#var#as' but '#var#' and 'as' as separate elements instead.

any idea how I could do this?

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In reply to help: 'Complex' split by vladb

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