This is helping me a great deal; however, I am now confused at another step. When I run the above code you provided - I get the following output.

__DATA___
E:\code\perl>cli-pl-csvProcess.pl a.cs
$VAR1 = [
          [
            '7',
            'Ace hardware',
            'Ace hardware1'
          ],
          [
            '4',
            'Acme cook book',
            'Acme cook book1'
          ],
          [
            '10',
            'Attack show',
            'Attack show1'
          ],
          [
            '8',
            'Baker\'s dozon',
            'Baker\'s dozon1'
          ],
          [
            '1',
            'Beginning C',
            'Beginning C1'
          ],
          [
            '2',
            'Beginning C++',
            'Beginning C++1'
          ],
          [
            '9',
            'Jumbo frames',
            'Jumbo frames1'
          ],
          [
            '5',
            'Jumping Jack Flash',
            'Jumping Jack Flash1'
          ],
          [
            '3',
            'Python Intro',
            'Python Intro1'
          ],
          [
            '6',
            'Zebra',
            'Zebra1'
          ],
          [
            '11',
            'car 54 where are you',
            'car 54 where are you1'
          ],
          [
            '12',
            'navy blue',
            'navy blue1'
          ],
          [
            '13',
            'navy gold',
            'navy gold1'
          ]
        ];

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How can I format this back into a normal CSV format output? My goal is to create a new file called output like in my hacked python script..

I can handle the file appending part; however, I do not full understand what is taking place right now. Looks like an Array of an array was printed out, but I am not sure if that is what I want or need.

In reply to Re^4: Help with converting Python script to Perl for CSV sort by jasonwolf
in thread Help with converting Python script to Perl for CSV sort by jasonwolf

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