I have a file looking like this:

field1=value1, field2=value2, field3=value3
field1=value1a, field2=value2a, field3=value3a

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need to extract the values only:

value1 value2 value3
value1a value2a value3a

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This oneliner works but looks lame:

cat file.txt | perl -ne 'm!.*=(.*),.*=(.*),.*=(.*)!; print "$1 $2 $3\n
+"'

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Doing it for a 10 field file would be too much. Is there a way to start delimeter using one field and end using a different character? Can array be used?

Please help.

thank you in advance

2017-08-01 Athanasius added code tags

In reply to one liner function by besogon

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