Thanks for the reply....its wroking but as a learner I wanted to use regex.. especially to extract substrings b/w a line as in this case.

my $line = '<suite subfamily="Database Connect - SQL" name="DBMgrTest 
+family="Databases">';

my $pattern = '<suite subfamily="(*.?)+name=(\S+)\s+family=(\S+)';

if ($line =~ /$pattern/)
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