Great idea, this works.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Regexp::Common qw/delimited number/;
use YAML;

my $x = 'Foo "ba . r". Baz. $2.67 per pound. is a "." in a sentence re
+ally a "."?';

my @x = split /($RE{delimited}{-delim=>'"'}|$RE{num}{real}|\.)/, $x;
my @y = ('');
for (@x) {
  $y[-1] .= $_;
  push @y, '' if $_ eq '.';
}
pop @y if $y[-1] eq '';

print Dump \@y;
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