>perl -wMstrict -le "my $rec = 'user2 1707 amanda test 1 .doc.412 4064 ' . '11/07/08-15:47 CREMFY roadtest' ; print qq{'$rec'}; ;; my ($username, $batchid, $remainder) = split /\s+/, $rec, 3; my $filename = reverse((split /\s+/, reverse($remainder), 5)[-1]); ;; print qq{'$username' '$batchid' '$filename'}; " 'user2 1707 amanda test 1 .doc.412 4064 11/07/08-15:47 CREMFY roadtest' 'user2' '1707' 'amanda test 1 .doc.412'