That's almost how I would do it, since I reverse things like that all the time. Your substitution, though, does too much work. $string =~ s/\S+\s//; is good enough.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a (from-home) job
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;