Hi .. Thank you for the quick reply .. Is it somehow possible to do it without using any module...?? I've reached thus far with the code 
$in_file = "test.txt";
$out_file = "testout.txt";

open (IN, "<$in_file") or die "Can't open $in_file: $!\n";
open (OUT, ">$out_file") or die "Can't open $out_file: $!\n";

while ( $line = <IN> ) {
@fields = split /,/, $line;
$line = join ",", $fields[0], @fields[1..5];  
print OUT $line;

print OUT "\n";
}

close IN;
close OUT;

#read in output file and print to screen to confirm
open (TEST, "<$out_file") or die "Can't open $out_file: $!\n";
while ( <TEST> ) {
print;
}
close TEST;

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There's only one problem bugging me .. How do i exclude the double quoted string from the pattern match in the split statement ..Once i am able to do that , the rest should be easy.. else it jus increases the amount of processing i need to do...

In reply to Re: regex pattern match by reaper9187
in thread regex pattern match by reaper9187

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