You could do this with split - but you shouldn't. I would recommend a capturing regex instead. Here's an example that satisfies your first match: 
my $pattern = qr/
                  (?:      # Match beginning of line or whitespace sep
+arator, no capture
                   \A
                   |
                   \s+
                  )
                  (          # Capture one of:
                    "[^"]*"  # Matched double quotes
                  | '[^']*'  # Matched single quotes
                  | {[^}]*}  # Matched curly brackets
                  | \S+?      # non whitespace
                  )
                  (?=     # Match end of line or whitespace separator,
+ positive lookahead,no capture.
                  \z
                  |
                  \s+
                  )
              /x;

my $data = '#VER "" 3 19950101 "Overforing BG till PG" 19950608';
my @values = $data =~ /$pattern/g;

for my $i (0..$#values) {
    printf "%2d) %s\n",$i,$values[$i];
}

[download]
Output: 
 0) #VER
 1) ""
 2) 3
 3) 19950101
 4) "Overforing BG till PG"
 5) 19950608

[download]
For complex regular expressions like this I would recommend using the 'x' modifier as in the example above. It makes maintenance easier.

In reply to Re: Pattern with split by imp
in thread Pattern with split by aw

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.