Read perlre. If you're in a rush read perlrequick. And if you find the learning curve too steep, take a step back and start with perlretut

Note, this isn't perfect. It assumes your end of line character is a linefeed. It also doesn't handle linefeeds in the 4th field. But then in the sample provided, it wasn't significant.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $data;
localscope: {
    local $/;
    $data = <DATA>;

    my $i=1;
    while ($data =~ /\G((?:(?:[^,]*),){3}(?:[^\n]*\n))/g) {
    my $entry = $1;
    print "$i $entry";
    $i++;
    }
}

1;
__DATA__
"123", "DEF123","this 
is
 test","C:\Abhinav\test.jpg"
 "456", "DEF456","this is test","C:\Matt\test.jpg"
 "726", "DEF726","this is test","C:\Matt\test.jpg"

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in thread Regex Split and Formatting by reaper9187

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