Hi, I was hoping someone could help me figure out why I can't seem to make an alternating match work. I've been stumped on this one for a couple days..

Here is the code. Basically I want to match the first value found between double quotes although there are two different formats for the lines:

set zone "VLAN" vrouter "trust-vr"
set zone id 100 "Internet_Only"

In both cases I want to capture the first value and was hoping to do it in a single regex. Here is what I have that isn't quite working: 

if ($line =~ /^set\szone\s("([^"]*)"|id\s\d+\s"([^"]*)")/) {
        my $zone = $1;
        print "Config line=> $lineCount;    Value=> $line;    zone=> $
+zone\n";
}

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Any ideas? It matches properly on: set zone "VLAN" vrouter "trust-vr", but the second line is returning: id 100 "Internet Only" when I only want what's between the quotes?
Thanks!

In reply to Problem with alternating regex? by dwlepage

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