I think the op's actually got a carriage-return separated file, if you view source. So I'm not absolutely sure on the format, but it looks like there are 5 lines per record, basically. The other thing is, do you now want the spouse and phone number in the pipe-separated records?

Anyway: 

use strict;

open FH, "foo" or die "Can't open: $!";
my @recs;
while (<FH>) {
    chomp;
    push @{$recs[int(($.-1) / 5)]}, $_;
}
close FH or die "Can't close: $!";

open FH, ">foo.new" or die "Can't open: $!";
for my $ref (@recs) {
    # break up the city, state, zip into 3 parts
    my($city, $state, $zip);
    if ($ref->[2] =~ /(.*?),\s(.*?)\s(.*)/) {
        ($city, $state, $zip) = ($1, $2, $3);
    }

    # join it all together into a pipe-separated
    # record, then write it out
    my $new = join "|", @{$ref}[0,1], $city, $state,
        $zip, @{$ref}[3,4];
    print FH $new, "\n";
}
close FH;

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I haven't tested this very thorougly, but it looks like it'll work. It's rather ugly, too. :)

In reply to Re: Simple Text Conversion by btrott
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