Changing "$_" in perl

Pipe delimited is not splitting correctly.

[mdharrold]

Isn't this the right?
$_ = "¦"; to change to pipe delimited
$_ = "\n"; to change back to default

[Josk]

You're trying split a chunk of text..?

@foobits = split(/regex/, $foo);

@foobits = split(/\n/, $foo);
@foobits = split(/\¦/, $foo);

...because ¦ is the regex "or"

@foobits = split(/\n¦\¦/, $foo);

(split on \n or ¦ )