Hi,

I'm trying to use Text::Balanced to parse a string that uses single double quotes (e.g. ") to delimit and escapes a single double quote with double double quotes (e.g. ""). Here is the script I've written:

use Text::Balanced qw( extract_delimited );
use strict;

my $line_in = q{""this"" "line" "has" "four"};

my $first_one;
my $remainder;
my $skipped;
($first_one, $remainder, $skipped) = extract_delimited($line_in,
                                                       q{"},
                                                       '\s*',
                                                       q{"});
print $first_one."\n";
print $remainder."\n";

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And here is the output:

""
this"" "line" "has" "four"

The output I was hoping to get is:

"this"
"line" "has" "four"

What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Using Text::Balanced by bfish

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