in reply to regex trouble

The main problem I can see is that you need to escape ] and [ in regexen (they are used for character classes). This worked for me:
my $text="jojo,has|some:big>balls][nuts,sometimes_|_he,scratches"; my @splitted= split /,|\||:|>|\]\[|_\|_/, $text; foreach $particle (@splitted) { print $particle."\n"; }
PS: ...or just see grandfather's post above :)

~dewey