in reply to Re^2: How to slice complicated string into an array
in thread How to slice complicated string into an array

As a core module Text::ParseWords is convenient for simple cases.

# perl
use strict;
use Text::ParseWords;
use Data::Dumper;

my $str = '"word1",word2,"word3,word4"';
my @words = quotewords(',', 0, $str);
print Dumper \@words;

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