Don't use split; use a regular expression with capture groups.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

my @pnames = <DATA>;

for (@pnames)
{
    chomp;
    /
        ^\s*                  # allow leading spaces
        \{(.+?)\}             # IdentifyingNumber in braces
        \s+                   # white space
        (.+?)                 # Name
        \s+                   # white space
        ([0-9\.]+)            # Version (allow numeric plus dot)
        \s*$                  # allow trailing space
    /x
        or next;   # skip lines not conforming to above pattern
    
    say "Got Identifying Number: $1";
    say "Got Name:               $2";
    say "Got Version:            $3";
    say "----";
}

__DATA__
IdentifyingNumber                        Name                         
+                Version
{E094B8EA-87B7-48DE-A0A8-A18AC8BFCDF4}   .NET Data Provider for Terada
+ta              14.00.0.0
{1551F9D6-1B14-4AE1-BABA-70A4319C236A}   ODBC Driver Provider         
+                14.00.0.0

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In reply to Re: Processing array with suitable options by tobyink
in thread Processing array with suitable options by Bharath666

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