Yes, Text::Balanced will work (and it is a core module since 5.7.3).

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::Balanced qw/ extract_multiple extract_quotelike /; my @data = ( q{50 0 "R0 G255 B0 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R0 G0 B0 A255" "R0 G0 B0 A255" + 0}, q{70 0 "R0 G255 B255 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R12 G12 B12 A255" "R12 G12 B +12 A255" 0}, ); my @extracted; foreach my $str (@data) { @extracted = extract_multiple( $str, [ \&extract_quotelike, ], ); print q{Input: }, $str, qq{\n}; print q{Output: }, qq{\n}; print qq{\t}; print join qq{\n\t}, grep { !(m/^\s*$/) and length $_ > 0 } @extracted; print qq{\n}; }

Output:

Input: 50 0 "R0 G255 B0 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R0 G0 B0 A255" "R0 G0 B0 + A255" 0 Output: 50 0 "R0 G255 B0 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R0 G0 B0 A255" "R0 G0 B0 A255" 0 Input: 70 0 "R0 G255 B255 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R12 G12 B12 A255" "R12 + G12 B12 A255" 0 Output: 70 0 "R0 G255 B255 A255" "Solid" 118 1 "R12 G12 B12 A255" "R12 G12 B12 A255" 0

Hope that helps.


In reply to Re^3: Extract delimited words from string by atcroft
in thread Extract delimited words from string by Anonymous Monk

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