in reply to solution wanted for break-on-spaces (w/specifics)

Your regex is messy.

Using the /x flag (see perlre), plus

would make things far more readable! ( Not only for you ...:)

Consider also composing your regex from smaller parts thru interpolation of variables.

Anyway from what I can spot are you treating " and ' very differently.

Since your requirements are fuzzy I don't dare telling what you really want.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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