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[x for x in
    map(
        lambda x: x.split(' ')[0].split('"')[1],
        subprocess.check_output('VBoxManage list vms', shell=True).splitlines()
    )
    if x.lower() == name.lower()
]

vm = `VBoxManage list vms`.each_line.map { l.split(' ').first.split('"')[1] }.find { |vm| name.casecmp(vm) == 0 }

while read vm; do
    vm="${vm% *}"    # Split first space
    vm="${vm#\"*}"   # Remove beginning quote
    vm="${vm%\"*}"   # Remove trailing quote
    [[ "$vm" =~ "$NAME" ]] && printf '%s\n' "$vm"
done < <(VBoxManage list vms)

VBoxManage list vms | grep -i "$vm"

foreach my $vm (map { s/"(.*)" .*/$1/; $_ }  split("\n", `VBoxManage list vms`)) { print "$vm\n" if $vm =~ /^$name.*/; }