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Does m/\/volumes\/VGNEW1\/lv\b/ work? It will now match only if the "word" ends after "/lv".

Splitting can be done as follows:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $line
    = "/dev/mapper/VGNEW1-Lv2 /volumes/VGNEW1/lvabc ext3 rw,grpquota,u
+srquota,acl 0 0";

my @items         = split / /, $line;
my @mount_options = split /,/, $items[3];

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