Here is my code...

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

use Text::ParseWords;
open(DATA,"textfile.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n";
my @data;
my $i = 0;

while (<DATA>)
{
  chomp;
  last if /^"EOS"$/;
  {
   @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, q(DATA));
  }
   foreach (@data)
  {
   print "$i: <$_>\n";
   $i++;
  }
}
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Here is textfile.dat...

"PER"
"A1" "Desiree" "Leppala"01261907 999-99-9999
"ADR"
"A1" "264 E Dekora St NO 1" "Saukville""WI" 53080
"EOS"
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What I would expect would be output that looks as follows...

0, PER
1, A1
2, Desiree
3, Leppala
...
13, 53080
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I know that I am incredibly misguided here, but please help me with as little criticism as possible. humbly dez L