Just write a parser for the input lines. For example, the following works for your sample input mentioned in a reply, and uses Marpa::R2 to parse the SQL:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use Marpa::R2; my $line = q{INSERT INTO sample_table (first_name,last_name) VALUES (' +John','Doe'),('John','Smith'),('Foo','O\'Bar'),('Baz','D\'Qux (II)'), +('(and so on, ','and so forth);');}; my $dsl = << '__DSL__'; :default ::= action => [name,values] lexeme default = latm => 1 Statement ::= (insert_into space) table_name (MaybeSpace) Columns (MaybeSpace values MaybeSpace) Values (semicolon) action => [values] Columns ::= (l_par) ColumnList (r_par) action => ::first ColumnList ::= column_name+ separator => comma action => [values] MaybeSpace ::= (space) | (empty) Values ::= ValueList action => ::first ValueList ::= Value+ action => [values] separator => comma Value ::= (l_par) Strings (r_par) action => ::first Strings ::= String+ separator => comma action => [values] String ::= (quote) Chars (quote) action => ::first Chars ::= Char+ action => concat Char ::= literal action => ::first | backslashed_quote action => bsq table_name ~ [\w]+ column_name ~ [\w]+ insert_into ~ 'INSERT INTO' values ~ 'VALUES' semicolon ~ ';' r_par ~ ')' l_par ~ '(' comma ~ ',' space ~ [\s]+ empty ~ [^\s\S] quote ~ ['] literal ~ [^'\x5c] backslashed_quote ~ [\x5c]['] __DSL__ sub concat { shift; join q(), @_ } sub bsq { q(') } my $grammar = 'Marpa::R2::Scanless::G'->new({ source => \$dsl }); my $value = $grammar->parse(\$line, { semantics_package => 'main' }); my ($table, $columns, $values) = @$$value; sub anonymise { my @names = @_; $names[0] =~ s/John/Sebastian/; return @names } sub quote { my @names = @_; s/'/\\'/g, s/^/'/, s/$/'/ for @names; substr $names[0], 0, 0, '('; $names[-1] .= ')'; return @names } say join ' ', 'INSERT INTO', $table, '(', join(',', @$columns), ')', 'VALUES', join(',', map quote(anonymise(@$_)), @$values) +, ';';

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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