I am trying to write a reexp that will return the value after the equal sig without quotes. I know I can trim the quotes after, but I was trying to get this into a shorter statement.
Here is the sub I have written so far:

sub get_arg {
    shift =~ /\W([^=]+)/;
    $1;
}

my $reqid = get_arg(FCP_REQID=103806);  # returns 103806
my $login = get_arg(FCP_LOGIN="USER/PASS");  #returns "USER/PASS", des
+ire USER/PASS
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I am currently doing the following, but it seems like I should be able to take care of the problem in the sub, so I don't have to add the tr/ to each call :

(my $login = get_arg(FCP_LOGIN="USER/PASS") =~ tr/\"//d;

__DATA__
FCP_REQID=103806
FCP_LOGIN="USER/PASS"
FCP_USERID=3944 
FCP_PRINTER="noprint"
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Thanks

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