Imports System
Class SplitExample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim input As String = "abc,defg;hijk|lmnop-qrst_uvwxyz"
Dim result As String() = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split(input, "[,;|\-_]")
For Each word As String In result
Console.WriteLine(word)
Next
End Sub
End Class
' run:
'
' abc
' defg
' hijk
' lmnop
' qrst
' uvwxyz
'