How to split a string into array?

oh yes:

Hi Ian:
Actually you need to escape the | character with a back slash as it is a special character.

Oh cool! I didn't know that, thanks.

Thank you very much!:sign0098:

There appear to be a few "special characters" like this. I know this from looking at several forum posts. The period . might be another one, cannot recall right now.

Anyway, I really think they should be mentioned in the documentation on regex. I spent 30 minutes searching forums and scratching my head at odd split behaviour when it would have taken 2 minutes if it was pointed out in the documentation.

Thanks all