If your data is not supposed to have spaces in it you could say:
$record = split / +/, $line;
" +" is regexp for "one or more spaces.
What you really need to do is understand why your field seperator
changes halfway through the month.
On 01 Jun 2001 23:19:24 -0700, Paul Fontenot wrote:
> I have a file that for 1/2 the month has one space between every word, I use
> this to split. However the other half the month it has two spaces in one
> place and all the rest have one space.
>
> Using s/ /#/g to change all spaces to # so I can use that for the split
> doesn't work. How can I get the back to back spaces to be something else?
>
> -Paul
>
>
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