[MacPerl] Help splitting encoded lists of lists

["Doyle B. Myers" <doyle@wrq.com>]

I get a scalar that contains an encoded list-of-lists, something like this:

$lol = '{{22, "foo o", "oof"}, {7, "bar b", ""}, {99, "x y, z", "bix baz"}}';

I want to split $lol into a nice 2D array so I can use members like:

@items[0][0] is 22
@items[0][1] is "foo o" (without the quotes)
@items[1][1] is 7
... and so on.

I can think of a whole lot of really awful ways to do this; what is the
most elegant (and hopefully efficient)?

Thanks,

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