I am trying to parse a directory of files which are comma delimited each field value pair contains a , and a newline seperator is at the end of the field value pair, I would like to readin the entire directory of files and modify the file itself to be a csv file without the new lines I would like to replace the newlines with comma's basically this should be fairly easy to do, but I am having trouble figuring out how to do it. all I really need is to change the file so that I have label,value, so I can import it into excel. here is what I have so far.. oh and the stuff in the bottom is a an example of the source files format.. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use File::Find;

$dirname=argv[];
my ($maxwidth)=0;
my (%cmTime,%hMtime,%oMtime);
my ($file,$base,$fmt);
opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
next unless ($base)=$file=~/(.+)\.txt$/;
open (fh, ">", $file) or die "Can't openfile $file: $!";
while (<fh>)
{
chomp;
($timestamp,@fields)=split/,/;
}
close (fh) or die "unable to close $file: $!";
$actioncode=$timestamp;
if ($actioncode='Login')
{
print "found login";
}
print ("succesfully opened file");
print("$file \n");
}
closedir(DIR);

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/8/2008 1:37:12 AM
Login,27.742460
SearchLoad,21.855703
SearchCount,45:43.520663
SearchResults,69.364964
SearchSave,107.611750
SearchDelete,29.317471
SearchDetails,10.493312
TaxLoad,24.488549
TaxResults,197:15.273238
TaxDetails,10.222830
ClientAdd,10.763459
CMALoad,7.398715
CMASave,16.196349
CMADelete,3.009030
ClientDelete,6.442495
Logout,0.873738

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