You can use multicharacter patterns to separate fields. If you are talking about filename on a Windoze host, I'd use something like (not tested):

$line = "C:\Winnt\system32\a.exe C:\Winnt\system32\b.exe D:\Files\blah
+.exe";
@files = split(#[C-Z]:\#, $line);
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Leonid Mamtchenkov