If your data is the same (_always_) then you can use a specific regex to get the data out. Or, perhaps more appropriately, to modify your delimiters:

Case 1 - permanent regex: 

for my $line (@lines_from_data_file) {
    my($idx,$fname,$sname,$loc,$time) = $line =~
        /^(\d+),("[^"]+"),("[^"]+"),("[^"]+"),(.*)$/;
}

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Case 2 - one-liner to modify delimiters (in place) 

perl -i.bak -ne "s/([\d\x22]),/$1.'|'/eg;print" datafile

# for some reason I can't use single quotes for a
# perl -e on Win32 so I have to use \x22 for "

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Case 3 - just realised you can use the regex above (slight mod.) for your split. 

@data = split /([\d"]+),/;

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I still suggest that case 2 is your best option - you're just making more work for yourself if you don't.

"Argument is futile - you will be ignorralated!"

In reply to Re: Regexp nightmare with CSV by larryk
in thread Regexp nightmare with CSV by Pingu

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