Monks- I have never used perl before, but have a wee bit of experience with awk. My problem is that I have a series of large data matrices, stored as comma-delim ascii files. They are 18 columns by several thousand lines. I'm trying to pull out three of the 18 columns and do some reformatting to get the raw data into a usable for for Arc/Info (GIS program), and I need some advice as to the best way to do this. A snippet of the raw file looks like this: 
 lon     lat     segno2
 "-69.87"     "40.07"     "952026060"
 "-69.85"     "40.07"     "952026060"
 "-69.84"     "40.07"     "952026060"
 "-65.64"     "41.13"     "952026064"
 "-65.66"     "41.15"     "952026064"
 "-65.60"     "41.32"     "952026064"
 "-65.61"     "41.33"     "952026064"
 "-65.57"     "41.15"     "952026066"
 "-65.57"     "41.13"     "952026066"
 "-65.57"     "41.12"     "952026066"
 "-65.56"     "41.11"     "952026066"
 "-65.56"     "41.10"     "952026066"
 "-65.54"     "40.97"     "952026066"
 "-65.54"     "40.96"     "952026066"
 "-65.53"     "40.95"     "952026066"
 "-65.53"     "40.94"     "952026066"
 "-65.47"     "41.16"     "952026067"
 "-65.46"     "41.15"     "952026067"

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And I want it to look like this, perferably without the "": 
"952026060"
 "-69.87", "40.07"
 "-69.85", "40.07"
 "-69.84", "40.07"
end
 "952026064"
 "-65.64", "41.13"
 "-65.66", "41.15"
 "-65.60", "41.32"
 "-65.61", "41.33"
end
 "952026066"
 "-65.57", "41.15"
 "-65.57", "41.13"
 "-65.57", "41.12"
 "-65.56", "41.11"
 "-65.56", "41.10"
 "-65.54", "40.97"
 "-65.54", "40.96"
 "-65.53", "40.95"
 "-65.53", "40.94"
end
 "952026067"
 "-65.47", "41.16"
 "-65.46", "41.15"
end
end

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Any help/advice as to how to proceed would be much appreciated. Rob

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