This is a pretty straightforward thing to do. I'd break up the construction of $pattern in to steps:

[trwww@www misc]$ cat 618115.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @delimiters = (
  ',',
  '|',
  ':',
  '>',
  '][',
  '_|_',
);
my $pattern = join '|', map quotemeta, @delimiters;

my $text = "jojo,has|some:big>balls][nuts,sometimes_|_he,scratches";

foreach my $particle (split /$pattern/, $text) {
  print $particle."\n";
}

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That gives the following output:

[trwww@www misc]$ perl 618115.pl
jojo
has
some
big
balls
nuts
sometimes
he
scratches

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Hope this helps,

trwww

In reply to Re: regex trouble by trwww
in thread regex trouble by spx2

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