note Kenosis <p>Given your data set, another option is to use a regex to grab the items you want out of the string. Consider the following:</p> <c> use strict; use warnings; my $str = "item1 | item2| item3 |item4|"; my @items = $str =~ /\w+/g; print "$_\n" for @items; </c> <p>Output:</p> <c> item1 item2 item3 item4 </c> <p>Hope this helps!</p> 997827 997827