Here is CommaSample.dat 
"PER"
"A1" "Denise Johnson" "red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple" 09/25/2001
"PER"
"A2" "Suzanne Summers" "blue,green,yellow,blue-green" 07/24/1995
"EMP"
"A1" "X & Y Bank" "Teller" 05/17/1994 "Brian's Point" "WI" 54997 24000
+.00
"EMP"
"A2" "Acme Corp" "Computer Programmer" 07/24/1997 "Maxwell" "WI" 53224
+ 45000.00
"EOS"

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And here is the program that I am running against it. Please tell me why this is producing NO output at all. 
#!/usr/bin/perl-Tw
use strict;

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

while (<DATA>)
{
  chomp;
  last if /^"EOS"$/;
    {
      @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
    }
      if (/^PER\s*$/)
        {
          @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
          my @colors=split(/,/, $data[2]);
          print "Entity     = $data[0]\n";
          print "Name       = $data[1]\n";
          for (@colors)
            {
               # print each color
               print "Color       = $_ \n";
            }
          print "Date        = $data[3]\n";
          @data = &quotewords ('\s+', 0, $_);
        }
      elsif (/^EMP\s*$/)
         {
          @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
          print "Entity      = $data[0]\n";
          print "Employment  = $data[1]\n";
          print "Job Title   = $data[2]\n";
          print "Hire Date   = $data[3]\n";
          print "Location    = $data[4], $data[5] $data[6]\n";
          print "Salary      = $data[7]\n";
         }
  }

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I keep going over this and over this and over this, but cannot figure it out. I am hoping it is easy, but i don't know. Please help me as I am at a high level of frustration and groveling here. peace, LOVE and ((code)) basicdez

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