I have some lines javascript that I'm trying to parse the data out of and store in an array. I need just the information inside the single quotes. If there is a "|" in the single quotes, I just need the text to the left of the pipe. Below is my try at the code, what am I doing wrong?

'Central|Central Illinois', should be stored as a liste element with value Central

Update: I figured it out, my regex should be: my @cities = $test =~ m/'(.*?)[\||']/g;
Is this the right way to do it?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $test = qq[
cities = new Array (

'Alabama',
'Albuquerque',
'Bakersfield',
'Boise',
'Central|Central Illinois',
'Chicago',
'DesMoines',
'EastTennessee',
'ElPaso',
'Fargo',
'Fresno',
'GulfCoast',
'WashBalt|Washington-Baltimore',
];


my @cities = $test =~ m/'(.*?)|.?'/g;

print Dumper \@cities;
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