Of course, this is the same as saying: 
my $string;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    $string = <FILE>;
}
my @stuff = split '%', $string;

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Now, a few things to note:
  1. Newlines will be preserved within the string. This may not be what you want.
  2. This will create null-strings wherever you have more than one '%' next to each other. This also may not be what you want.
Assuming you don't want those two situations, I'd do something like: 
my $string;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    $string = <FILE>;
}

$string =~ s/$///g;
my @stuff = split /%+/, $string;

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Update: Changed $/=''; to $/ = undef;. The first is "paragraph mode". The second is "slurp mode". Thanx to tye who pointed that out! :-)

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