in reply to search for vertical bars
Just because I cringe at duplicated code (and my duplicate threshold is very low ;-)
Nothing at all wrong with DamnDirtyApe's answer... Like the title says, I was bored and just had to post.
if (grep {/\|/} (param('des'), param('title')){ # at least one of them matched }
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