Another solution, using overlapping capture groups (uses ' single-quotes in example instead of " double-quotes because of excessive escapology needed by Windoze shell to handle doubles):

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $s = q{'ab'cde'fgh'};
 my @ss = $s =~ m{ (?= (' [^']* ')) }xmsg;
 print qq{($_)} for @ss;
"
('ab')
('cde')
('fgh')
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