DB<5> $s = q/"foo:bar","test:boing!","whirrr:clunk"/;
  DB<6> %hsh = split /[:,]/, $s; ## do both the required splits in one step
  DB<7> x %hsh

0  '"whirrr'
1  'clunk"'
2  '"foo'
3  'bar"'
4  '"test'
5  'boing!"'