in reply to Extract a paragraph with double quoted text

this works for paras enclosed in double quotes.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $data; { local $/; $data = <DATA>; } my @paras = split /(?<!\w)\n+/, $data; print join "\n\n", grep { m/"/ } @paras; __DATA__ Paragraph to ignore. Paragraph with "double quoted text" to get. Another paragraph to ignore. "Fully quoted paragraph."