A quick addition to the problem .. I have a separate part of text that i need to replace .. for eg: I/p(read from a file) is of the form:

"ABC","DEF","This is a test","Hello";
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and the o/p needs to look something like :

"ABC","DEF","This is a substitution","Hello";
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In short i need to replace pattern within quotes in a line .. I need help with the pattern match .. please help ..!!! Update:
Could some one please help me debug this code..??

 #!/usr/bin/perl -w


my $variable;
my @fields;
my $line =0 ;
use vars qw($current_path $filename);

print "Enter the desired path: ";
my $path = <STDIN>;
chomp( $path );

my $in_file = "test.txt";
my $out_file = "testout.txt";

open (DATA, "<$in_file") or die "Can't open $in_file: $!\n";
open (OUT, ">$out_file") or die "Can't open $out_file: $!\n";

while ( <DATA> ) {
 chomp;
  my ($first, $last ) = /(.+",)(.+)/;
  $last =~ s//"\n$first"/g;
  
 my @parameters = split /"\s*,\s*"/, $first;
 $parameters[1] =~ tr/"//d;

my $path = "$path\\";
my $new_path = $path.$parameters[1];
 
@array = split(/,/,$last);

 foreach $entry(@array)
 {
$entry =~ tr/"//d;
$entry =~ s|(.+)\\|$1::|;

($current_path,$filename) = split/::/,$entry;

$last =~s/$current_path/$new_path/ig; #rename the last entry which con
+tains a path to folder name with the new path

print "$last\n";


  }
  
 print "\n";
}

close DATA;
close OUT;
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