Recently became involved with Regular Expressions and, while experimenting with Perl scripts using Text::ParseWords, I came up with a script containing the following code: I read a file with the CSV text line: "earth",1,,"moon",9.374

use Text::ParseWords;
@fields = ();

my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "Missing CSV file on the command line\n";
open($text, '<', $file) or die "Could not open '$file' $!\n";

$line = <$text>;
@fields = quotewords(',', 0, $line);

foreach $field (0..$#fields) {
    print $field + 1 . " $fields[$field]\n";
}
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#------------------------------------ The above works fine and prints: 1 earth 2 1 3 4 moon 5 9.374 #=================================================================== However, if I try the following,

my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "Missing CSV file on the command line\n";
open($text, '<', $file) or die "Could not open '$file' $!\n";

while ($line = <$text>)
{
   @fields = quotewords(',', 0, $line);
}

foreach $field (0..$#fields) {
    print $field + 1 . " $fields[$field]\n";
}
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it only prints: 1 What am I missing here?

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