use warnings; use strict; while() { chomp (my $line = $_); my @columns = $line =~ m/\s*(-?\d+)/g; print "@columns\n"; } __DATA__ 15,567 -25,324-45,234 15,567-25,324-45,234 -13,345 53,562 13,452 -7,521-22,454-54,671