delimiters with more than one character? ...

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

 I have a string delimited by two characters: "\|"

 _S=" 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc "

 which then I need to turn into a array looking like:

  _S_AR=(
" 34 + 45 "
" abc "
" 1 2 3 "
" c"
"123abc "
)

  I can't make awk or tr work in the way I need and all examples I
have found use only one character.

  Is it possible to do such things in bash?

  lbrtchx