perl regex to read contents between double quotes

Question

I have a file which contains information something like this:

TAG1      "file1.txt"

some additional lines

TAG2      "file2.txt"

some more lines

TAG3      "file3.txt".

Now, I want to read what is inside the double quotes and assign it to variable ( something like $var1 = file1.txt $var2 = file2.txt $var3 = fil3.txt) . Can anyone guild me how to do this.?

Answer 1

You could achieve your goal by

1. using regular expression

    my @files; while (my $line = <>) { if (m/"([^"]+)"/) { push @files, $1; } } 

2. using split()

    my @files; while (my $line = <>) { my (undef, $file, undef) = split /"/, $line, 3; push @files, $file; } 

Answer 2

Except for the period after "file3.txt". (which I suspect is a artifact from posting the question), your data appears to be a CSV file with tabs.

If that's the case, I advise you to parse the file with Text::CSV

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use Text::CSV;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new ( { sep_char => "\t" } )
    or die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag ();

my @files;

open my $fh, '<', 'file.csv';
while ( my $row = $csv->getline( $fh ) ) {
    push @files; $row->[1];
}
$csv->eof or $csv->error_diag();
close $fh;

print "@files";