Your regex can small like this(be sure the string you need is inside ' ' as you shown us).......but all of them do the same job.....so its your choise.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @match;
while(<>){
push (@match,$1) if /'(.*)'/;
}
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