John McKown wrote:

>I finally got how to parse the string and allow it to start and end with 
>either a ' or a ". The start and end character must be the same.

>($x)=$line=~m/((:(["'])[^\2]*\2)+)/;

Thanks! You have cured my curiousity. ;-D

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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