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"]