Instead of going through the string(s) one character at a time, you could split the second string into whitespace and non-whitespace parts, and then apply them blockwise. That way you have far fewer iterations and operations to do.
use 5.014;
use strict;
use warnings;
my $str1 = "12345 ABC 987 MNO";
my $str2 = " CDE";
my $pos = 0;
my $res = '';
for my $chunk (split /([^ ]+)/, $str2) {
if (substr($chunk, 0, 1) eq ' ') {
$res .= substr $str1, $pos, length $chunk;
}
else {
$res .= $chunk;
}
}
continue {
$pos += length $chunk;
}
if ($pos < length $str1) {
$res .= substr $str1, $pos;
}
say $res;
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