Split string on multiple character delimeters

[Aaron DeLoach]

I am trying to split a string based on a multiple character delimiter and
place it into a hash. After a few hours I came up with the following:

my $str = "color%=red%;lang%=engl";
my %hash = split /%;|%=/, $str, -2;

It works, but I would like to know if it's the right method

 

[Anno Siegel]

I am trying to split a string based on a multiple character delimiter and
place it into a hash. After a few hours I came up with the following:

my $str = "color%=red%;lang%=engl";
my %hash = split /%;|%=/, $str, -2;

It works, but I would like to know if it's the right method

The right method would largely depend on what data it is likely to
encounter, what's at stake if it fails, and a lot more things we know
nothing about. There's nothing obviously wrong with it.

Anno