There are inconstancies between your input and output data. I can't determine the rule for handling white space so you will have to figure that much out for yourself.

The key to your main problem is split. Something like:

    my ($first, @fields) = split ';', $line;

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splits the string in $line into a number of elements in a list then assigns the first element to $first with the rest ending up in @fields.

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In reply to Re: single line to multiple line by GrandFather
in thread single line to multiple line by thalumus

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