You can use split to put the words into an array or a list:

my $line  = "This is a line of text";
my @words = split /\s+/, $line;
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Note that the /\s+/ bit technically isn't needed, because split defaults to splitting on whitespace.

There's more info on split on Perldoc.

Hope that helps,
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