#! perl -w use strict; open(IN, "c:\doclist.txt") or die "Couldn't open file, $!"; while() { chomp; # Remove the newline my ($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4, $var5, $var6, $var7) = split /,/; print OUT $var1,"|",$var2,"|",$var3,"|",$var4,"|",$var5,"|",$var6,"|",$var7,"\n"; } exit; close IN close OUT