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in reply to Re^2: split string using regex
in thread split string using regex

Try this: 

while( $line =~ /(\w+)=("[^"]+"|\S+)/g ) {
  print "$1: $2\n";
}

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Warning: no guarantees if your string is not well-formed.

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