in reply to How can I split a comma-delimited string when the fields can have commas in them?

The best answer is to use Text::CSV from CPAN. Otherwise, you'll have to craft a regex which can handle obscure cases like commas between quotes, escaped quotes within quotes, and other funny stuff like that.

One possibility is: 

  $string =~ m!"*?([^,])"*?(?:=,)!;

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