my $title = "This is the New Title cool_image.gif Tue Feb 8 09:43:17 2005"; 
if ($title=~/(.*)\s+(\w+\.gif)/) {
    print $1
}else {
    print "no match"
}

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$title=~/(.*)\s+(\w+\.\w+)/

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$title=~/(.*?)\s+(\w+\.\w+)/