You need to make some assumptions about the way your data is formatted. You have to check each line with something like the following:

if ( $line =~ /\A[0-9]/ ) {
  $phone = $line; # It's a phone number
} elsif ( $line =~ /.*@.*/ ) {
  $email = $line; # It's an email address
  print "\"$name\",\"$phone\",\"$email\""; #Assumption - input data is
+ ordered name, phone, email.
} elsif ( $line =~ /[\A[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+,/ ) {
  $name = $line; # It's a name
} else {
  print "WARNING: I could not understand input line: $line\n";
}

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Of course assumptions tend to be wrong the first time. You may have to adjust them later after checking the output. Also it's better to use a module to generate CSV, the print line above is for demonstrating the idea, not real production usage.

In reply to Re: converting txt to csv and formatting by 1s44c
in thread converting txt to csv and formatting by csorrentini

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