#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::Balanced qw/ extract_multiple extract_quotelike /; my @data = ( q{50 0 "R0 G255 B0 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R0 G0 B0 A255" "R0 G0 B0 A255" 0}, q{70 0 "R0 G255 B255 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R12 G12 B12 A255" "R12 G12 B12 A255" 0}, ); my @extracted; foreach my $str (@data) { @extracted = extract_multiple( $str, [ \&extract_quotelike, ], ); print q{Input: }, $str, qq{\n}; print q{Output: }, qq{\n}; print qq{\t}; print join qq{\n\t}, grep { !(m/^\s*$/) and length $_ > 0 } @extracted; print qq{\n}; }