in reply to Usage of regular expressions in input separator

Depending on how complex your requirements are, you may be able to use Stream::Reader to match one of multiple delimiters, and accomplish your task.

Although it does not support regular expressions, in your example case, you could use 

  map {"Separator $_"} 0..9

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as your delimiter list.

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