#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @array; my @bigun; my $i; open (FILE, "/test.txt"); while (){ chomp($_); if (/,/){ #out with the old push @bigun, (join ' ',@array) if (@array); #and in with the new @array=split /,/,$_; } else { #append the 'un-commaed' line to the lest element of the array $array[$#array]=$array[$#array].$_; } } push @bigun, (join ' ',@array); foreach $i(0..$#array){ print "$bigun[$i]\n"; }