Hey, this warrants a legimate use of supersplit! (first use of the third dimension I have encountered)

use SuperSplit;
$a = supersplit( '|',"\n","\n\n", $data_in_one_string);
print $a->[0][1][2]; #will print 'Pokey Reese'
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Jeroen
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