$new_guy,
This appears to do what you want but your requirements are not very clear so I had to guess. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 <input>";
open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Unable to open '$file' for reading: $
+!";
while (<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    my ($num, @data) = split m|,?\s+(?=sp)|i;
    die "Need rules for handling odd elements" if @data % 2;
    for (my $idx = 0; $idx < @data - 3; $idx += 4) {
        print join("\t", $num, @data[$idx, $idx + 2]), "\n";
        print join("\t", $num, @data[$idx + 1, $idx + 3]), "\n";
    }
    if (@data % 4) {
        print join("\t", $num, "-", $data[-2]), "\n";
        print join("\t", $num, "-", $data[-1]), "\n";
    }
}

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Re-organising entries by Limbic~Region
in thread Re-organising entries by $new_guy

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