The following does what you want, but it may be over-fussy:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @files = split '@@', <DATA>;

s/^.*?c:\\temp// for @files;
@files = grep {/^\\/} @files;
print join "\n", @files;

__DATA__
c:\temp\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\test\test1.c@@
+main\com\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc\test
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Prints:

\source\test\test.c
\source\test\test1.c
\source\test\test3\test2.c
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print "$_\n" for /c:\\temp(\S*?)@@/g;
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$str = 'c:\temp\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\test\t
+est1.c@@main\com\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc
+\test';

print map {"$_\n" if s/c:\\temp(.*?\.c)/$1/} split(/\s+|\@+/,$str);
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SECOND UPDATE: I don't what happened between testing and posting that this code isn't working. It worked fine on my box.

THIRD AND (hopefully) FINAL UPDATE: Got it now. Thanks again to Grandfather.

You should really test your code before posting. All the \ dissapear from $str - use non-interpolating ' rather than " to fix that.

There is a missing / in the split regex and an extra ) following it.

Even after fixing those errors, when the code is run a "Use of uninitialized value in split" warning is issued and incorrect output is generated:

\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\test\test1.c@@main\co
+m\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc\test
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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

dsb I am using your command and need a little more help. If I want to get all the files that has an extension not just .c how can i specify that? In the command I see that .c is specified. Can I specify mutliple patterns or use a wild card so that it gets all the files with extension.I have few .c files, .java and .xml and some directories in the $str. I just want to filter out the directories and get the files. ie in addition to

'c:\temp\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\test\test1.xm
+l@@main\com\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc\test
+ c:temp\source c:\temp\source\java@@main\com\etc\test  c:temp\source\
+java\test.java@@main\com\etc\test '
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I want the out put to be

\test\test.c
\source\test\test3\test2.c
\test\test1.xml
\source\java\test.java
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THanks

You can tweak the regex to match all extensions or feed it an alternation that will find only certain extensions.

# match any file extension
print map {"$_\n" if s/c:\\temp(.*?\.(?:\w|\d)+?)/$1/} split(/\s+|\@+/
+,$str);

# match only a few extensions
print map {"$_\n" if s/c:\\temp(.*?\.(?:c|xml|java|etc))/$1/} split(/\
+s+|\@+/,$str);
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I think you'd be better of using runrig's snippet at Re: Dealing with split, though.

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dsb
This @ISA my( $cool ) %SIG

my $foo = 'c:\temp\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\tes
+t\test1.c@@main\com\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\
+etc\test';
my @bits = split /\@\@.*?(?: c:\\temp|$)/, $foo;
print "$_\n" for @bits;
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Doesn't trim off the trailing junk for the last entry:

c:\temp\source\test\test.c
c:\temp\source\test\test1.c
c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc\test
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Thank you all for the suugetions.... It helped me a lot.

$str ='c:\temp\source\test\test.c@@main\com\etc c:\temp\source\test\te
+st1.c@@main\com\test c:\temp\source\test\test3\test2.c@@main\com\etc\
+test';

while($str=~ m/c:\\temp(.*?)\@\@/g)
{
print "$1\n";
}
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