Your question is not very clear - are you saying that you have an array like this: 
  my @input_array = ("href=\"/something/something1/html\"",
                     "href=\"/abc.html\"",
                     "href=\"blah.html\"",
                     "href=\"/dir1/dir2/dir3/test\"")

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if that IS what you are starting with, then this should work - use 'split' to split each line: 
   foreach $array_element (@input_array) {
      my ($href_text, $href_directory) = split /=/, $array_element;
      ### now take off the leading and trailing double quotes ###
      my $href_dir_no_quotes = "";
      if ($href_directory =~ /^"(.*)"$/) {
          $href_dir_no_quotes = $1;
      }
   }

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Use with a grain of salt, since this is completely untested, but it should be close. I'm not sure if each double quote needs to be escaped in the regular expression.

HTH.

In reply to Re: Help on parsing an array by hmerrill
in thread Help on parsing an array by Anonymous Monk

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