my @lines; while () { my @fields = (split /,/, $line)[1,2,3,4,5,9,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]; for (0..$#fields) { $fields[$_] = qq("$fields[$_]") unless /^"[^"]*"$/; } push @lines, @fields; }