Get substring according to a separator character

[winman2004]

In NSIS i want to get substring of a string according to a separator
If

$var=D:\myfiles\a.txt|E:\new

then i want to get var1 as D:\myfiles\a.txt and var2 as E:\new where | is separator used.
Please help

[Yathosho]

iirc, you can use this. also have a look at the other text files manipulation functions