Okay, say this is basicdez.dat file. 
"PER"
"Denise Johnson" "red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple" 09/25/2001
"EOS"

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And this is the desired outcome... 

Name  = Denise Johnson
Color = red
Color = orange
Color = yellow
Color = green
Color = blue
Color = purple
Date  = 09/25/2001

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How could I change this code to read in the colors as an array. I do not want this... 
Name  = Denise Johnson
Color = red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple
Date  = 09/25/2001

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And I do not want this, which is what this code currently produces... 
Name   = PER
Color  =
Date   =
Name   = Denise Johnson
Color  = red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple
Date   = 09/25/2001

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I would like to take the colors in as a comma delimitted field and produce them out as individual fields. Please help me if you can. peace dez L Current Code (It really needs some help) 
#!/usr/bin/perl-Tw
use strict;

use Text::ParseWords;
open(DATA,"basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n";
my @data;
my $i = 0;

while (<DATA>)
{
  chomp;
  last if /^"EOS"$/;
  {
  @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
  }
   print "Name   = $data[0]\n";
   print "Color  = $data[1]\n";
   print "Date   = $data[2]\n";
}

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I know that this does not come close, but please help me out if you can... What I really need help with is seperating out the comma dilemmeted field. Any suggestions would be awesome... dez L

In reply to Comma Delimitted Fields.. by basicdez

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