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Wouldn't quotemeta avoid this problem, as well as the ones described below?

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Re^4: Surprised by split
by sk (Curate) on Aug 11, 2005 at 19:14 UTC
    You are right! That should do it!!!

    perl -e ' $str = "hi|there"; $d = quotemeta("|"); @a = split /$d/, $st
+r; print +($_,$/) for (@a);'
__END__
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there

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