I just thought I'd post the finished work of art: 
#! /usr/bin/perl
#parsing Exchange output file to create address aliases
use strict;
use warnings;

my($infile) = ("C:\\recipient.txt");
my($outfile) = ("C:\\outfile.txt");

use Text::CSV::Simple;

open(OUTPUT, ">$outfile") or die "Can't open $outfile : $!";

my $parser = Text::CSV::Simple->new;
$parser->want_fields(1, 2, 3);

my @data = $parser->read_file($infile);
foreach my $line (@data)  {

# process only accounts that contain SMTP addesses                    
+               
    if ($line->[0] =~ m/SMTP:/i)    {    
        my $user = $line->[1];        
        my $server = substr(($line->[2]), -6);
    
#split up the line that contains all the email addresses
              my @smtp = split(';', $line->[0]);        

        foreach my $part (@smtp)    {
        
# do not process anything that is not an SMTP address
# (exclude fax & X400)
            if ($part =~ m/SMTP:/i)   {
                $part = substr($part, 5);
                print OUTPUT ("$user\@$server \t $part\n");
            }
        }
    }
 }
 
 
 
# CSVDE command used on domain controller to 
# generate recipient information for users in domain
# Dumps the user name, all proxy addresses 
# and the home mailbox server - it WON'T exclude the DN.
 
# csvde -m -n -g -f "C:\recipient.txt" -r "(|(&(objectClass=user)(obje
+ctCategory=person))(objectClass=groupOfNames)(objectClass=msExchDynam
+icDistributionList))" -o "distinguishedName, DN" -L "name,proxyAddres
+ses,msExchHomeServerName"

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Output is exactly what I wanted. Thanks for all your help, guys!

In reply to Re: Best method of munging CSV data - using Text::CSV::Simple? by billie_t
in thread Best method of munging CSV data - using Text::CSV::Simple? by billie_t

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