How do I split a string into an array by comma but ignore commas inside double quotes?

Question

I have a line:

$string = \'Paul,12,\"soccer,baseball,hockey\",white\';

I am try to split this into @array that has 4 values so

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Answer 1

The standard module Text::ParseWords will do this as well.

my @array = parse_line(q{,}, 0, $string);