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"This is what I currently have as far as reading in the text file and writing the csv file."

I concur with earlier comments regarding the use of Text::CSV.

"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."

I would probably just read the lines in groups of three. Here's my take on what (the guts of) your code might look like:

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use constant INFO_LINES => 3;

use Text::CSV;

my $txt_in  = 'pm_1092407_txt_in.txt';
my $csv_out = 'pm_1092407_csv_out.csv';

cat_file($txt_in, 'INPUT');

my $csv = Text::CSV::->new;
open my $txt_in_fh, '<', $txt_in;
open my $csv_out_fh, '>', $csv_out;

my @captures;

while (<$txt_in_fh>) {
    chomp;
    push @captures, $_;

    unless ($. % INFO_LINES) {
        $csv->print($csv_out_fh, [@captures]);
        @captures = ();
    }
}

close $txt_in_fh;
close $csv_out_fh;

cat_file($csv_out, 'OUTPUT');

sub cat_file {
    my ($file, $prompt) = @_;
    $prompt = 'FILE' unless defined $prompt;

    print '=' x 64;
    print "$prompt ($file):";
    print '-' x 64;
    system cat => $file;
}
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Output:

================================================================
INPUT (pm_1092407_txt_in.txt):
----------------------------------------------------------------
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
================================================================
OUTPUT (pm_1092407_csv_out.csv):
----------------------------------------------------------------
"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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-- Ken

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

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