graf you are correct sample2 is what I needed, except each file has multiple records, example I provided was merely one of them,it looks like the +? isn't working quite the way I though it would in this one line though..not sure why I expected the names, would not get printed but instead they do appear in my csv, I was thinking I would do an ole call to excel and just dump the values right on in there without the names but it doesnt.. is that due to the join prints above this loop? 
for my $file ( @files ) {
    ( $basename ) = ( $file =~ /(.+)\.txt$/ );
    if ( open( F, $file )) {
        ( $date, @values ) = <F>;
        chomp $date;
        chomp @values;
        s/.+?,// for ( @values );      # delete the "name," parts
        print join( ",", $basename, $date, @values ), "\n";
        close F;
    }
    else {
        warn "$file: $!\n";
    }
}

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