#!/usr/bin/perl

# this is long just to be readable
# some clever Monks will no doubt show shorter methods...

# Monks get stroppy if you don't use these... :-)
use strict;
use warnings;

# Perl developers best friend....
use Data:Dumper;

# array we want to process...
my @array = qw( "abc def" );

# print array to show it contains the two elements...

print "Array:".Dumper( \@array)."\n";

# join your array together...
my $str = join( '', @array);

# remove anything you don't want in the string...
# this removes all quotes, but you can change it
# to just start and end
$str =~ s/['"]//g; # ...or $str =~ tr/'"//;

# output result....
print $str;
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