in reply to Re^2: grep for ending with double quotes
in thread grep for ending with double quotes

..so how can I ensure it takes only those words which start with " not end with "..
You ask Perl to do that exactly like so: 

print join "\n" => grep /"\w+?/, qw( abc efgh" "ijk lmn "opqr stuv");

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..produces... 
"ijk
"opqr

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