Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32)  Thu 12/17/2020 21:09:41
C:\@Work\Perl\monks
>perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MData::Dump=dd
my $s = " info

                    John




                100 - 2000




                  Kent";

my $word = '';

while ($s =~ m{ $word [^[:alnum:]]+ ([[:alnum:]]+) }xms) {
    print "next word after '$word' is '$1' \n";
    $word = $1;
    }

print "another way \n";
my @words = $s =~ m{ [[:alnum:]]+ }xmsg;
dd \@words;
^Z
next word after '' is 'info'
next word after 'info' is 'John'
next word after 'John' is '100'
next word after '100' is '2000'
next word after '2000' is 'Kent'
another way
["info", "John", 100, 2000, "Kent"]

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Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32)  Thu 12/17/2020 21:59:18
C:\@Work\Perl\monks
>perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings
my $s = " info

                    John


                info - 2000


                  Kent  ";

my $word;

while ($s =~ m{ [^[:alnum:]]* ([[:alnum:]]+) }xmsg) {
  if (defined $word) {
    print "next word after '$word' is '$1' \n";
    }
  else {
    print "first word is '$1' \n";
    }
  $word = $1;
  }
^Z
first word is 'info'
next word after 'info' is 'John'
next word after 'John' is 'info'
next word after 'info' is '2000'
next word after '2000' is 'Kent'