use strict; use Text::CSV::Simple; #usage wsj2csv AMEX091806.txt my ($filename) = shift; print $filename."\n"; print "What is the trading date(MMDDYY)?"; my $traddt = ; print $traddt."\n"; my $parser = Text::CSV::Simple->new; $parser->want_fields(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8); my @data = $parser->read_file($filename); my $datalines = @data; print $datalines."is number of rows.\n"; for my $row(@data) { my @line = @$row; foreach my $row1(@line) { print $row1.","; } print "\n"; }