#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Scalar::Util::Numeric qw(isfloat); use Data::Dumper; my @data; push @data, grep { isfloat($_) } split /\s+/ while ; print Dumper @data; __DATA__ 360.000 -0.000100033 -1.76122e-05 -9.89111e-05 -1.9003e-05 640.000 -4.54467e-05 9.13758e-05 -4.50576e-05 9.04804e-05 123 V.1234