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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $str = "07870635509,3,0,29052002,DORMANT,05011998,1,2,128,0,0,0";

my @arr = split(',', $str);
print "field5 = $arr[4]";

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Re^2: Extracting field from a line
by knirirr (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2005 at 08:49 UTC
    I usually do this, which is much the same: 
    my $field5 = [split(/,/,$str)]->[4];

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