Your regular expressions are probably matching too much, and I'm guessing that you are seeing some pipe characters in the stuff in $1 and so on. You want to make the quantifiers non-greedy so they stop matching when they find the thing that comes after them. 

@matches = m/(.*?)\|/g;

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But you might want split() 

@matches = split m/\|/;

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As for reading characters into a variable, if you are reading from a filehandle, read() may be what you are after. If you are getting the characters from another scalar, you probably want substr() and index(). See the perlfunc page for the details.

Good luck!

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brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

In reply to Re: Grabbing anything between pipe delimiters by brian_d_foy
in thread Grabbing anything between pipe delimiters by meisterperl

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