Your question has already been answered. I just want to give you some hints for the more general case (n-th column or you need more than one column):

• Don't try to use a regex there, use split:

  my @columns = split /\s*/, $line;
  
  # or
  my $col3 = (split /\s*/, $line)[2]
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• Depending on what you would like to get, split on / /, /\s*/ or ' '. Or whatever your column delimter might be.

-- Hofmator