Aologies for this being such a basic question, but probably people have done this many times and I'm bad & slow at regexes. I'm maintaining a perl script without knowing enough perl myself (yet) so a solution would be much appreciated.

The script splits two filenames out of a line of text; now it needs to handle long filenames within quotes, where a space was previously the delimiter.
Many thanks
Alan

$TheLine = "REFERENCE z:/bin/JAnalyzer/fred.lst package/fred.lst";

$TheLine =~ /(\S*)\s+(\S*)\s+(\S*)\s*/; 
print "1 is $1 and 2 is $2 and 3 is $3\n";

$TheLine = 'REFERENCE "z:/bin/JAnalyzer/Justice Analyzer Users Guide.p
+df" "package/Justice Analyzer Users Guide.pdf"';

$TheLine =~ /(\S*)\s+(\S*)\s+(\S*)\s*/; 
print "1 is $1 and 2 is $2 and 3 is $3\n";
#hmmm

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