Thanks to the power of regexes and split and Text::CSV, it is really easy:
use Modern::Perl;
use Text::CSV;

my $important;
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    last if m/--------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------------------------------/;
    next unless m/Important Text: (.*)/;
    $important = $1;
}

open my $fh, '>', 'output.csv';
my $csv = Text::CSV->new({eol => "\n", quote_null => 1,}); # check the
+ docs for the parameters to set the format of the CSV

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my @data = ($important, split /\s+/)[0..6]; # we only need "import
+ant" + the first 6 fields of the data
    $csv->print ($fh, \@data);
}
close $fh;


__DATA__
Date 08/17/11 Report Page 1
Time 12:46

Important Text: 1
Misc Text: All
Misc Text: Sec
** Indicates
APPTEXT


PLINE     SCODE    PCODE    FID    SEC    unsec     fcs
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------
TEST TT TT00 TT00.1 NO xxxx TTD
TEST TT TT00 **TT00.2 YES XXXXXX
TEST TT TT00 **TT00.3 YES XXX
TEST TT TT01 TT01.1 NO XXXXXXXXXXX TT
TEST TT **TT02 TT02.1 YES XXXXX

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Output:

1,TEST,TT,TT00,TT00.1,NO,xxxx
1,TEST,TT,TT00,**TT00.2,YES,XXXXXX
1,TEST,TT,TT00,**TT00.3,YES,XXX
1,TEST,TT,TT01,TT01.1,NO,XXXXXXXXXXX
1,TEST,TT,**TT02,TT02.1,YES,XXXXX

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In real production code you will want to check --at the very least-- that each input and output function succeeded.

Update: I missed that you only needed the first 6 fields of your data. Solved that by using an array slice.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Parsing text file to CSV by CountZero
in thread Parsing text file to CSV by apok69

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