And here is another way (you can wrap it in a function if you wish) that returns the text inside the quotes without the qoutes:

my $str = qq|"this is one" and "anot""her one" is "" right "her"e|;

my @stuff = map { /([^"]+)"$/ } $str =~ /"([^"]*"|[^\s"]+)/g;

print join("\n", @stuff), "\n";
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The first regular expression returns a list like so:

this is one"
anot"
her one"
"
her"
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and the second regex inside the map removes the left over quote and, as a feature of map, doesn't return the 'empty' ones - so the final list looks like:

this is one
anot
her one
her
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I am sure that this process could be compacted into yet another single regex, but it eludes me.

Jeff

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