Hi, I have a string of the type: 
ci,14938340,2,"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC",34.6953,-118.53
+50,2.2,17.40, 9,"Southern California"

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from where I wish to extract several fields; as you can see they are separated by commas - but some have commas inside them; so split is outside the question... I'm trying this: 
@data1 = ($line =~ m/ *([a-z]+) *, *(\d+) *, *(\d+) *, *\"(.*?)\" *, *
+([\d\.]*) *, *([\d\.]*) *, *([\d\.]*) *, *([\d\.] *) *, *([\d\.]*) *,
+ *\"(.*?)\" */gi); 

$d = $4; 
$g = $7; 
$j = $10; 
$h = $8; 
$e = $5; 
$f = $6;

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also tryed 
my ($a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h,$i,$j) = @data1;

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But I get null strings in the first case, and a full one - in $a - in the second. Can someone help me out? Kind regards, Kepler

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