Since Text::ParseWords is a core it should not be a problem to use it.
Here is my attempt:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::ParseWords;
while ( my $line = <DATA> )
{
chomp $line;
my @fields = quotewords( ',', 0, $line );
my @lastfield;
if ( index( $fields[-1], ',') > -1 )
{
@lastfield = quotewords(',',0,$fields[-1]);
$fields[-1] = shift @lastfield;
}
@fields = map { '"'.$_.'"' } @fields; # if quotes are obligatory
print join( ',', @fields ), "\n";
while ( my $rest = shift @lastfield )
{
$rest = '"'.$rest.'"';
my @temp = (' ') x scalar @fields - 1; # three spaces,
# two of these because of quotes
push @temp, $rest;
print join(' ', @temp ), "\n";
}
}
__DATA__
"A","B","C","D"
"A","B","C","D,E,F"
"A","B","C","D"
"A","B","C","D,R,T"
The output:
"A","B","C","D"
"A","B","C","D"
"E"
"F"
"A","B","C","D"
"A","B","C","D"
"R"
"T"