I have a dynamically generated string which is basically a row with each value separated by a pipe symbol |, I need to separate it and insert them into a bunch of hidden fields .

This was almost what I needed to do, but not working for me, and I can only use (~ or |) as special characters since my data may contain other characters.

Here is my code:

var data = Val1@#|val2$%|val3(*|; // dynamically generated 



$.each(data.split(/s*|s+/), function(i, val) {

    alert(val);

});