Thanks ig. I never expected to go from raw data to a .csv file in so few lines of code! Using the new data file, and changing print statement to eq 'LST PRICE' here is a small sampling of the output: 
G0001,G0001,2010,GMC,ACADIA,/,33410.00
G0002,G0002,2010,GMC,ACADIA,/,32615.00
G0003,G0003,2010,GMC,ACADIA,/,33010.00
G0004,G0004,2010,GMC,ACADIA,/,32615.00
G0005,G0005,2010,GMC,ACADIA,/,33410.00

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Haven't pinned down why the STOCK NO is showing up twice. Just wanted to update you. UPDATE: Now have it removing the first STOCK NO in the final output and print format to a quoted .csv file: 
!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


my $file = 'gwfnvi.txt';
open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "$file: $!";

my $csv;
foreach my $line (<$fh>) {
        chomp($line);
        next unless($line =~ m/^([^\.]+)\.+\s+(.*)/);
        if($1 eq 'STOCK NO') {
                $csv = $3;
       }
        $csv .= ",\"$2\"";
        my $str2 = substr($csv, 1);
        print "$str2\n" if($1 eq 'LST PRICE');
}

close($fh);

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Thanks again!

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in thread Text Extraction by sonicscott9041

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