Re: splitting pipe into new line

[toolic]

It's not clear to me what you want. If you want to replace all pipes with a newline, you can use s///:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $description = 'a|b|c|d|e';
$description =~ s/\|/\n/g;
print "$description\n";

__END__

a
b
c
d
e

Or, if you really want an array, you can add newlines using map

my $description = 'a|b|c|d|e';
print "$description\n";
my (@new) = map {"$_\n"} split (/\|/, $description);
print @new;

[PerlSufi]

Ah, silly me- thanks toolic. s/// is what I needed.