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Save the current Internal Field Separator in oIFS, set it temporarily to '/' so the shell can split the string, restore ASAP the standard value.
For more information:

man sh|less -pIFS

Your plan will actually give you all the lines twice except those that you want to exclude. You will get them once.

Could you consider:-exclude_list="ts584d|hf584db"
egrep -v $exclude_list...

Note that while the line range says delete (361 - 182 + 1)=180 lines, the count suffix says delete 181 lines and wins, so it is equivalent to ":181,362d", and the file now contains 1-360 and 542-$,...

:182,361d181


It will delete 181 lines from 361th line and place the cursor at 361th line