Removing quotes from string

Question

So I thought this would just be a simple issue however I'm getting the incorrect results. Basically I am trying to remove the quotes around a string. For example I have the string "01:00" and I want 01:00, below is the code on how I thought I would be able to do this:

$expected_start_time = $conditions =~ m/(\"[^\"])/;

Every time this runs it returns 1, so I'm guessing that it is just returning true and not actually extracting the string from the quotes. This happen no matter what is in the quotes "02:00", "02:20", "08:00", etc.

Answer 1

It appears that you know that the first and last character are quotes. If that is the case, use

$expected_start_time = substr $conditions, 1, -1;

No need for a regexp.

Answer 2

All you forgot was parens for the LHS to put the match into list context so it returns the submatch group(s). The normal way to do this is:

 ($expected_start_time) = $condition =~ /"([^"]*)"/;