According to my understanding of the original poster's goal, this is NOT the solution to his problem. Contrary to the poster's statement that he needs to make split "quote aware", I think he really wants to make it quote UN-aware, so that he can treat quotes as another delimiter character (this is what the sample assignment statement he offered accomplishes, of the form @array = ( "A", "B" ) being the resulting effect, for an original line of the form A "B"). Unless I'm misunderstanding his intentions, the proper solution would then be something akin to: my @words = split /[\s"']+/ (assuming it's not important to ensure balanced use of quotes) 
Tim Maher
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