Your question is not very clear - are you saying that you have an array like this:

  my @input_array = ("href=\"/something/something1/html\"",
                     "href=\"/abc.html\"",
                     "href=\"blah.html\"",
                     "href=\"/dir1/dir2/dir3/test\"")
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if that IS what you are starting with, then this should work - use 'split' to split each line:

   foreach $array_element (@input_array) {
      my ($href_text, $href_directory) = split /=/, $array_element;
      ### now take off the leading and trailing double quotes ###
      my $href_dir_no_quotes = "";
      if ($href_directory =~ /^"(.*)"$/) {
          $href_dir_no_quotes = $1;
      }
   }
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Use with a grain of salt, since this is completely untested, but it should be close. I'm not sure if each double quote needs to be escaped in the regular expression.

HTH.