Thank you so much for the prompt reply ...
I did try using regex but failed miserably.. I got thus far : 
$out_file = "testout.txt"; #this is the file to be edited


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

 $/ = "\n";

  while ($line = <OUT>) {
    
   my $first = (split /,/, $line)[0];
   $first =~ tr/"//d;
   $first =~ s/^\s+//;
 
 .......
  }

close OUT;

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*Tried to use the first numeric element as matching criteria and the split that line into an array(but that got way too complicated)
* Then tried using splice to split the entire file into equal sized arrays( but i did not know how to do that)

I did not know how to proceed(hence the "...." in the code) The method i'm using is long (since I'm a newbie to perl and don't understand all the nuances)..Appreciate the help ..

P.S: This is not my homework.. Just something i'm working on currently ...

In reply to Re: Regex Split and Formatting by reaper9187
in thread Regex Split and Formatting by reaper9187

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