in reply to ignore some delimiters while using split

You could do this at the prompt with something like
perl -ne 'print if / (\S) \1 \1$/' data.txt
assuming your file is named data.txt. If you want to save that to a second file then
perl -ne 'print if / (\S) \1 \1$/' data.txt > second.file

The -ne flags are very handy at the command line. The -e flag means "evaluate this code". The -n flag doesn't have a convenient mnemonic but wraps a loop around the code for every line of input.

For example...

perl -e 'print "hello world\n"'

... is a nice canonical example. And...

perl -ne 'print "hello world. Look at this: $_"' data.txt

...will prepend text to every line of data.txt and print the result.

more docs for command line options at perlrun

more docs for regular expressions at perlre