You shouldn't assign to the number variables. It won't work, and if i remember well will even raise an exception. The regex engine does it by itself, when you don't apply list context to m//g.

You can do something like

m/(\S+\s)(\S+\s)(\S+\s)(\S+\s)(\S+\s)/;
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To be more along the lines of what you've tried, and $1 .. $5 will have the correct values in them. But that is redundant.

You also placed $_ in the parens for some odd reason. It attempts to find the string within itself. I think you mean

$_ =~ m//g
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Anyway, best of luck.

-nuffin
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