You should be able to use split();e.g.,

$file = "c:\\somepath\\somefilename";
open (FILE, "<$file")  or die "Cannot open $FILE for reading :$!\n";
while (<FILE>){
  chomp;
  my @fields = split /\s+/;
  # @fields now contains individual fields from each line
}
close FILE;
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--perlplexer