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in reply to Reading in data that is

Your problem is that split with no arguments will split on whitespace - and your data record contains lots of white space within the fields.

You probably want a split regualar expression something like this:

split /"\s*"/;

But that will still leave you with extra quotes in the first and last fields that you'd have to remove.

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