I simplified some of the logic, and threw together this example. I hope it helps. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @mField;

#open(DATA," basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n";
while(<DATA>)
{
  unless (/^\s*\"EOS\"/)
  {
    @mField = (split(/\"\s*\"*/));

    print $mField[1],', ',$mField[2],"\n";
    print $mField[3],"\n";
    print $mField[4],', ',$mField[5],"\n";
    print $mField[6],"\n";
    print "\n";   
  }
}
#close(DATA);


__DATA__
"Jane""Doe" "123 W Beverly Ave" "Talahasee""Maine" "222-22-2222" 
"John""Doe" "456 W Beverly Ave" "Seattle""Washington" "333-33-3333" 
"EOS"

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