in reply to Re^2: split on comma-separated fields, where a field may have commas inside quotes
in thread split on comma-separated fields, where a field may have commas inside quotes

But the first asterisk yields empty chunks
grep will solve that problem easily:
@chunks = grep {$_} ($str =~ /[^,"]*(?:"[^"]*"[^,"]*)*/g);

CountZero

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