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my $data = 'Tom$Dick$Harry';
my @names = split( m/\$/, $data);

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STR31-PL-EX0: A string literal may be passed to a function if it normally takes a regex pattern but provides special behavior for that string. For example, the perlfunc manpage [Wall 2011] says, regarding PATTERN, the first argument to split():

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