use strict; use warnings; my @items = ('"Title Text Example1"', 'Title Text Example2', ' Title Text Example3 ',' "Title Text Example4"'); foreach my $title (@items) { my $match = 0; $match++ if $title =~ s/^[\s"]+//; $match++ if $title =~ s/[\s"]+$//; print "$title.\n" if $match; } __END__ Title Text Example1. Title Text Example3. Title Text Example4.