Splitting pipe delimitted string.

Don Vawter <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:17:47 -0600

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What pattern can I use to split   "apples|oranges|peaches|cream" on the 
| boundary
"|"  splits between every character and "\|"    won't compile. "\u007c"  
also splits between every character

Thanks
Don