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A single space character (' ') is a special case. I admit that it is a bit buried in the split documentation. Of course, only at most OP knows whether leading whitespace should be kept…
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Re^4: Extracting selected fields form file record
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 06, 2022 at 20:14 UTC
    you are right and it will also handle leading whitespace! :)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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