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How about awk? It has built-in split-on-string abillities.
echo "a;;;b;;;c;;;d;;;" | awk 'BEGIN {RS=";;;" ; N=1 } { f=sprintf("comment%d.txt",...

Put quotes around /;;;/

In she shell it's a seperator, you could do echo a ; echo b to run two commands on one line. so it has special meaning to the shell and needs quoting to put it in a string.

Try csplit - not I'm not completely clear on your requirements but this is close:

csplit -f comment -n 4 Me_thread_spell.txt '/;;;/'

This will create comment0001 -> comment9999, one file for...

my bad - '/;;;/'

you need single quotes around the regex... see above