Grandfather - his original post had none of that. He must have edited it later.

Solution code - requires Text::CSV.

use Text::CSV;
use strict;
use warnings;

my ($in, $inhandle, $out, $outhandle, $csv, @fields, $prefix);

$in = 'test.csv';
open ($inhandle, "<$in") || die;

$out = 'testout.csv';
open ($outhandle, ">$out") || die;

$csv = Text::CSV->new();

while (<$inhandle>) {
    chomp;
    $csv->parse($_);
    @fields = $csv->fields();
    if ($fields[0] =~ s/\(([A-Z])\)\-\(([A-Z])\)$//) {
        $prefix = $fields[0];
        for ($1..$2) {
            $fields[0] = "$prefix($_)";
            $csv->combine(@fields);
            print $outhandle $csv->string() . "\n";
        }
    }
    else {
        print $outhandle "$_\n";
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Writing into a csv by TJPride
in thread Writing into a csv by Anonymous Monk

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