ut it was something that came to mind from BrowserUk's choice of sample data :)

My "choice of sample data" was simply a guess at approximating the sizes of the elements shown in the OP.

In the unlikely event that the OPs data actually includes floating point values, and his systems are configured to use ',' as the floating point, and he is dumb enough to take the commas in my string as a recommendation of a separator, completely missing the conflict that arises from doing so, then he will discover his error the first time he runs his program.

And unless he is silly enough to make that first run a production run on a system in a hospital, or a nuclear power plant, or an aircraft--does anyone use Perl in critical systems?--then there will almost certainly be no harm done.