Re: Nested grouping or capturing inside capturing

[Not_a_Number]

in reply to Nested grouping or capturing inside capturing

What if "data with spaces" is not necessarily the third (or nth) field?

To make your code more robust, try Text::CSV:

use Text::CSV;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new( { sep_char => ' '} );
my $fh = *DATA;  # Replace *DATA with your input file name

while ( my $row = $csv->getline( $fh ) ) {
  say join '-', @$row;
}

__DATA__
abc def data 123
ghi jkl "data with spaces" 456
"oh dear" "more data with spaces"