#!/usr/bin/perl

# https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1225917

use strict;
use warnings;

$_ = <DATA>;

my @titles = /\w+/g;
my @positions;
push @positions, $-[0] while /\w+/g;

while( <DATA> )
  {
  /\S/ or last;
  for my $i (0 .. $#positions)
    {
    /^.{$positions[$i]}(\w+)/ and $titles[$i] .= " $1";
    }
  }

use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd \@titles;

__DATA__
Name       Company                Work                       Home     
+                  Work
           Name                   Address                    Phone    
+                  Hours
                                                             Number

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Outputs: 

[
  "Name",
  "Company Name",
  "Work Address",
  "Home Phone Number",
  "Work Hours",
]

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In reply to Re: finding colunm header which crossing multiple rows by tybalt89
in thread finding colunm header which crossing multiple rows by cscu2007

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