I may be missing something, but this seems to be all about appropriately transforming in-place the  & | characters (and any surrounding whitespace). Nothing needs to be extracted.

Script:

use warnings; use strict; print qq{running under Perl version: $] \n\n}; my $str = <<EO_STR; must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered One & must-column9:No_e +rror must-column08:See Here & must-column10:Delivered | must-column9:No_err +or EO_STR print qq{<<$str>>}; print qq{\n\n}; $str =~ s{ \s* ([&|]) \s* }{\n$1\n}xmsg; print qq{[[$str]]};

Output:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks\ravi45722>perl xform_str_1.pl running under Perl version: 5.008009 <<must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered One & must-column9:No_e +rror must-column08:See Here & must-column10:Delivered | must-column9:No_err +or >> [[must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered must-column08:Submit & must-column10:Delivered One & must-column9:No_error must-column08:See Here & must-column10:Delivered | must-column9:No_error ]]


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In reply to Re: Regex : Return match elements by AnomalousMonk
in thread Regex : Return match elements by ravi45722

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