Text::ParseWords is also a useful tool here, viz:
use strict;
use Text::ParseWords;

my $string = 'one "two and a half" "three"  four "five" "six"';

my @words = &parse_line('\s+', 1, $string);
my $error = length($string) && @words == 0;

my @unquoted = grep {!m/"/} @words;
my @quoted = grep {s/^"(.*)"$/$1/} @words;

print join('|', @unquoted)."\n";
print join('|', @quoted)."\n";
print $error;

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The second argument to parse_line tells it to retain the quotes it found. This function returns nothing in the case of unbalanced quotes, so we can use this to detect an error. Also note the order of the two greps. The substitute in the second one operates directly on the elements of @words, not on the intermediate $_ (which I have just learned while concocting this example). So it cannot come before the one above it.

In reply to Re: separated quoted stings from unquoted strings by Dr. Mu
in thread separated quoted stings from unquoted strings by Cody Pendant

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