Your description is such a mess due to bad HTML that I'm not sure what you really want to do, but most likely your problem is that \Q quotes meta characters so that the contents of $pattern are treated as a string to match. Omit \Q and in this case your life may be happier.

You also need to quote all the meta characters in $pattern and you need to "double quote" in a double quoted string: "(,|\\||:|>|\\]\\[|_\\|_)" so the quote character is available to be parsed by the regex engine. The two changed lines then become:

my $pattern= "(,|\\||:|>|\\]\\[|_\\|_)";
my @splitted= split /$pattern/,$text;

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In reply to Re: regex trouble by GrandFather
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