> Hope this is clear,

not really, and not CSV (comma separated)

That's what you want? 

  DB<107> $str =~ s/^""//;             # remove start
 => 1

  DB<108> $str =~ s/""$//;             # remove end
 => 1

  DB<109> @result = split /" "/, $str  # separate quotepairs
 => (
  6357445,
  1349947,
  0,
  1,
  3,
  2,
  1,
  1,
  1,
  1,
  -2,
  1394531830,
  1394531830,
  1415599200,
  0,
  0,
  0,
  0,
  196,
  29240,
  378,
  1394531846,
  0,
  0,
  0,
  8201,
  0,
  64,
  0,
  2,
  89799,
  8201,
  89805,
  -1,
  -1,
  "Local Cell id=2, Cell Name=21842C11",
  0,
  1394531057,
  1394531057,
  1415599200,
  1394531092,
  "",
  0,
  "RAT_INFO=GL, AFFECTED_RAT=L",
  "",
  "",
  "10.35.201.146",
  "195;",
  0,
  5705354,
  0,
  "",
  "",
  0,
  0,
  "Cell",
)

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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

update

the OP was updated with code-tags, such that now the fields are separated by many whitespaces. to make my code work use split /"\s+"/ now.

In reply to Re: extract string columns with perl by LanX
in thread extract string columns with perl by juanito23

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