$author = "Smith, Kristin A.; Shirley, Mark Harper ; Saff, David ; Ernst, Michael D.; Patrick, Nicholas J. M ; Yu, (Jeffrey) Hu; De La Macorra, F ; Smith, Meghan. ";

this variable has author names , but my target is to change the order of individual author, like "Smith, Kristen A." should change to "Kristen A. Smith".

I have used the following code:: 
@author = split(';', $author);
$ca = scalar(@author);
for (my $i=0; $i<$ca ; $i++)
{
    ($a, $b) = split(',', $author[$i]);
    $author[$i] = "$b$a";

}
$author = join(',', @author);
print "$author\n";

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i find this code really complex. Please suggest a better code using map function.

In reply to Changing the order of elements in the variable by Shaveta_Chawla

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