Hello

If I'm understanding correctly, you have a file consisting of lines. Each line looks like 

CheatBook-DataBase 2001 v3.0 - http:://.... (50 spaces) some text

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And you want to delete the spaces and the trailing text. If that's what you wanted, then you can use a simple substitution: 
s/ {50}.*//;

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to remove the first 50 consecutive spaces it sees and everything after them.

However if what you want to keep is the stuff after the spaces, then you can use split this way: 

my $str = ...
my @array = split /\s+/, $str;
my $title = pop(@array); # get the last element
# or even
$str =~ / {50,}(.*)/; # match 50 or more spaces and capture
                      # remaining text 
my $title = $1;

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Hope this helps,,,

Aziz,,,

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