How to split a delimited string into an array...

I have a delimited string coming in to a stored procedure (SP) for vb.net that needs to be parsed/converted into multi-dimensional arrays. The reason I am using delimited string because I do not know how to pass arrays to oracle SP from vb.net using ODP or MPO (Microsoft's Provider for Oracle).
My delimited string looks something like this: "level1_1|level2_1:level3_1;level3_2|level2_2:level3_1;level3_2~Level1_2|level2_2:level3_1"
So, its going to be 3d array. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me solving this puzzle. Any examples would be a great help.
Thanks for everything in advance,
Vincent

Hi Andrew,
I appreciate your response. Currently I use "Microsoft provider for Oracle" to connect to Oracle Database because when I started with my application there wasn't ODP (Oracle Data Provider for .Net) available. So, I used Microsoft provider and still using it.
I know how to use arrays in .Net but the problem is I can not find the Oracle Type to pass the array to Oralce Stored Procedure using this provider.
It would be very helpful if someone shows me the syntax for both to receive from oracle and transport to Oracle. I haven't tried using ODP yet. May be now its the time to see how it works.
And of course, your link was very helpful but I am already doing that (which is very slow for multi-dimentional array). So, I thought there might be a built in function in oracle which does that. Because most of the programming languages does have built in function for this conversion. for example: Split() in vb, java, javascript etc.
Anyway, if anyone finds any clues as to how to pass milti-dimentional arrays from .Net (microsoft) to oracle stored procedure please, please let me know how to do that.
-Vincent

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