I stuck with your overall approach using split and substr. I realize that the regex approaches already given are more elegant, but I am post-happy today. That s// operator returns the number of substitutions, which is what was foiling you. Comma can help, if you like. 

$record = " 100.100.100.100    1COMPUTER1       09/13/30828 22:48:05";
@iparray = split(/\./, do{($copy = substr($record,0,17)) =~ s/ //, $co
+py});
$" = ".";
print "@iparray";

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,welchavw

In reply to Re: Simplify This by welchavw
in thread Simplify This by ChrisR

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