Afternoon benevolent monks,
I'm trying to put together a regex which will pass out speech from a text which is inside either single or double quotation marks for an idea that I have. I've got the regex to find the whole string but I just want what is inside the quotation marks and not the whole sentence. 
use strict;
use warnings;

while (my $text = <DATA>) {

   if ($text =~ /(['"].*?['"])/ ){
     print "Found $text \n";
     }
     else {
       print "Out of luck \n";
     }
}
    
__DATA__
"Mary and a little lamb", she said. 
She thought 'Hang on a tick'
Nobody loves me
"Mary and a large lamb"

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I know that there are a couple of CPAN modules which can do this but I thought it might be interesting to try myself first. I did try a lookahead and lookbehinds but it would only match the final string and not where the text is in a sentence. I'd be grateful for any pointers.

In reply to Trying to find all items in between quotation and speech marks by Anonymous Monk

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