Hi Kepler,

I just tweaked your regex a bit and used test data from haukex. I like his regexp-common solution, but for something simple, you are close.

use warnings;
use strict;

my $data = do { local $/; <DATA> };

my @strings = $data =~ /\"([^\"]*)\"/g;
   
print map{"<$_>\n"}@strings;

=Prints
<hello>
<bar>
<hello>
<world>
<bar>
<baz>
<>
<>
<example 1 for instance>

=cut

__DATA__
nothing
"hello"
foo "bar" quz
"hello" "world"
foo "bar" quz "baz" blah
""
blah "" blah
nothing
"example 1 for instance"
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Update: I saw the post from AnomalousMonk, re: "". That is why I changed the + to a * to handle that situation. And yes, if a quote went between 2 lines, the new line would get captured and have to be dealt with in some way.

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