The easiest answer to your issue to suggest the use of one of many CSV modules on CPAN (Comma-separated values). My preference is for Text::CSV. A sample which does what you request: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::CSV;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new.
        or die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag ();
my @rows;
open my $fh, "<&", *DATA or die "Clone failed";
while ( my $row = $csv->getline( $fh ) ) {
    push @rows, $row;
}
$csv->eof or $csv->error_diag();

print join "\n\n", map {join "\n", @$_} @rows; 
 
__DATA__
ci,14938340,2,"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC",34.6953,-118.53
+50,2.2,17.40, 9,"Southern California"

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In reply to Re: Parsing a string by kennethk
in thread Parsing a string by kepler

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