Thanks all for your valuable suggestions and feedbacks.

Now, here is another requirement, i have the file of format as below,(from a sql query output)

    BED001  |137CM BUDGET BLUE B/SET  |BED001  |BASE & MATTRESS  |  |E
+a  |0  |0  |39.47  |0.00
    BED0015  |183CM BODY CUSHION BASE SET  |BED0015  |BASE & MATTRESS 
+ |  |Ea  |0  |0  |1,099.91  |0.00

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The expected output is

BED001,137CM BUDGET BLUE B/SET,BED001,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,39.47,0.
+00
BED0015,183CM BODY CUSHION BASE SET,BED0015,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,"1
+,099.91",0.00

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The code i tried is

use strict;
use Text::CSV;

my $csv     = Text::CSV->new( { sep_char => "|", allow_whitespace => 1
+ } );
my $infile  = "s.txt";
my $outfile = "s.csv";

open( my $fh,  "<", $infile );
open( my $out, ">", $outfile );
while ( my $array = $csv->getline($fh) ) {
    local $" = ",";
    local $\ = "\n";

    #$csv->combine(@{$array});
    #my $line=$csv->string();
    print $out "@{$array}";

    #print $out $line;
}

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The actual output:

BED001,137CM BUDGET BLUE B/SET,BED001,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,39.47,0.
+00
BED0015,183CM BODY CUSHION BASE SET,BED0015,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,1,
+099.91,0.00

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I need to quote 1,099.91 in the second line of the output csv since the string contains sep_char ",".Is there any method to define output sep_char ?? or How to achieve the expected result??

In reply to Re: Extracting fields from CSV by suhailck
in thread Extracting fields from CSV by suhailck

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