That is so much nicer than what I came up with, but I'll add mine, too (otherwise it would have felt like a total waste of time): 
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

my $string = qq(aaa,bbb,"ccc,ddd",fff,ggg,"hhh,iii",jjj);
my @split_on_comma = split /,/, $string;

my @quoted;
my @ready_to_join;
for (@split_on_comma) {
    if ( /^"/ .. /"$/ ) {
        s/"//g;    #remove this if you actually want "s in your output
        push @quoted, $_;
    }
    else {
        push @ready_to_join, join ',', @quoted if scalar @quoted;
        @quoted = ();
        push @ready_to_join, $_;
    }
}
my $pipe_delim = join '|', @ready_to_join;

say $pipe_delim;

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Output: aaa|bbb|ccc,ddd|fff|ggg|hhh,iii|jjj

In reply to Re^2: Converting File Delimiters by frozenwithjoy
in thread Converting File Delimiters by mmueller44

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