How would i construct a regex, to feed to split i would guess, so i could split on any pipe thats not contained by brackets? Ex.:if my original string was "foo|{baz|qux}|fax" i would want my three elements to be "foo","{baz|qux}" and "fax".

So far i looked at the negative look ahead and negative look behind expressions, and i came up with something that doesnt work, namely 
/
(?<!     # start the negative look behind
    \{     # an opening bracket 
    .*     # anything else 
)     # close negative look behind

\| # the pipe

(?!    # start the negative look ahead
    .*     # anything..
    \}    # followed by a bracket
)    # close the look ahead
/x

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Obviously the .* is going to break things and so forth, so.. what can i change?

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