Im trying to extract some words which is present between two double quotes " " Im able to extract but the issue is if any double quoted words is preceded by a word , it is also getting displayed For eg:- In the word :- "perl"monks i need the word Perl to be extracted but "perl"monks is getting displayed.

The snippet is given below:-

use strict;
open FILE, "<searchfile.txt";
my @line = <FILE>;
for (@line) 
    {
    if ($_ =~ m{["](.*?)["]}) 
    {
        print "$_\n";
    }
    }

[download]

P.S:- I dont know whether the below scenario is possible but please give suggestions and ideas:-

When Im extracting a string for eg perl in the above scenario the total no of letters is 4

similarly i want to extract only 4 letters (alphanumeric) in the complete text. Thanks Monks!!!!!!!!

In reply to Extracting Strings - Special Cases by rajkk04

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.