Hello monks,

I am trying to convert a txt file to csv which isn't really too difficult, however I'm not too sure how I would go about it with a text file that isn't pre formatted to having all of a clients info on one line, second client on second line, etc. This is how the txt file currently reads: 

Jacobs, April
750.467.9582
quam.quis@sedhendrerit.org
Mays, Martena
870.348.1974
sollicitudin@nonummyFusce.org
McNeil, Brennan
289.527.6151
lobortis@nisl.com
Sexton, Melvin
599.927.5337
in.felis@varius.com
Blackburn, Prescott
661.589.1228
sed@egetlaoreetposuere.edu

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I need to basically format the info in a csv file to read as a table with headers of Name, Phone and email. Each different client on a new row.

This is what I currently have as far as reading in the text file and writing the csv file. My problem is I have no idea how I would go about grabbing data into specific fields with the way the txt file is currently formatted. 

use strict; 
use warnings; 

my $infile="clients.txt";  
 
open my $in,  "<", $infile     or die $!;
open my $out, ">" , "clients.csv" or die $!; 

my $client = <$in>; 

chomp($client);

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Any help greatly appreciated.

In reply to converting txt to csv and formatting by csorrentini

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