Hi, I am working on changing a column output from from a command to a horzontal delimited line for loading into a DB. Thought it would be simple, but my mind is making it very complex and ugly, so I am seeking wisdom on a cleaner method. Sample imput is this. 
Update Time: 2005.04.27 15:44:12
Targets: 4
Complete: 4(100%)
Waiting: 0

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Output should look like this 
Update Time,Targets,Complete,Waiting
2005.04.27 15:44:12,4,4(100%),0

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I had created a hash by splitting on the : and pushing the keys and values into seperate arrays and then printing the arrays back. But the time value HH:MM:SS causes problems and I don't like assuming that the headers will match the values by printing the array of keys then the array of values. Sample 
while(my($key, $value) = each(%list)){

    push(@headers, $key);
    push(@values, $value);

}

print "@headers\n";
print "@values\n";

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