This begs for a regular expression. But it's dicey to build a regex based on only one example. Here's a bit of code that you might start with: 
my ($date_stamp,$event,$alert_id,$status);
my $str = '2001/03/12 time>Event [21]Alert Completed (34562), Status: 
+[22] Alert Completed,MN_netware-support';

($date_stamp,$event,$alert_id,$status) = 
   $str =~ /^([\d\/]+).*?(Event.*?ed) \((\d+)\), (.*)$/;

print "[$date_stamp]\n";
print "[$event]\n";
print "[$alert_id]\n";
print "[$status]\n";

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Which prints out: 
[2001/03/12]
[Event [21]Alert Completed]
[34562]
[Status: [22] Alert Completed,MN_netware-support]

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This may well break depending on what variation there is in the rest of the data, but it may serve to get you started. 
^             start at the beginning of the line
([\d\/]+)     match and save a bunch of digits and /'s
.*?           lazily match and ignore stuff until...
(Event.*?ed)  match and save of 'Event...ed'
              match but ignore the following space
\(            match a literal paren
(\d+)         match and save a bunch of digits
\),           match and ignore literal paren, comma, and space
(.*)          match and save anything until...
$             the end of the string

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In reply to Re: split delimiters #2 by dvergin
in thread split delimiters #2 by bailybj

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