in reply to Split a string to remove quotes and parentheses

<Maine Downeaster Accent>
Don' think ya can get theah from heah!
</Maine Downeaster Accent>
Split is on the answer you are after for that application. Try this: 

$string='"(test123)"';

$string =~ s/[\"\(\)]//g;
printf "%s\n",$string;

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