Leave out the /\s+/. As per the perlfunc:split, (found in perlman:perlfunc)this will skip leading whitespace.

@flds=split;
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<code> If EXPR is omitted, splits the `$_' string. If PATTERN is also omitted, splits on whitespace (after skipping any leading whitespace). Anything matching PATTERN is taken to be a delimiter separating the fields. (Note that the delimiter may be longer than one character.) <code>