G'day nmdahl,

Welcome to the Monastery.

Here's a fairly straightforward way of doing that with a variety of test cases. Note this won't remove the 'd"' from the end of your first posted sentence (1st test case). 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $re = qr{\bd"(\w+)};

while (<DATA>) {
    s/$re/$1/g;
    print;
}

__DATA__
... and am having trouble with strings containing d".
... if the input string is d"alice I need ...
No d + " + alice here.
Here's many: d"alice and d"alice and d"alice and ...
d"alice at start of line
and at end of line: d"alice
"d"alice"
'd"alice'

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Output:

... and am having trouble with strings containing d".
... if the input string is alice I need ...
No d + " + alice here.
Here's many: alice and alice and alice and ...
alice at start of line
and at end of line: alice
"alice"
'alice'

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If that doesn't do what you want, please post representative input and expected output. The guidelines in "How do I post a question effectively?" explain the best way to do that.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Regex Remove String with Quotations by kcott
in thread Regex Remove String with Quotations by nmdahl

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