A simple regex won't work, as it would have to know the difference between "two spaces between words" and "two spaces at the end of the first part". You could either claim that "two or more spaces" delimit the items, but that will fall down as soon as you have one item that has the maximum allowed length. You could use a limited-length match like the following:

# 122     Genesis Chamber             Mark Tedin                A     
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$string =~ /^(\d+)\s{2,}(.{28})(.{26})(.)\s+(.)$/;

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But that is a very tedious way of constructing and using a regular expression when unpack can do the same:

my ($num,$title,$author,$flag1,$flag2) = unpack "A8A27A26A7A",$str;

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In reply to Re: Abritrary multiple spaces as delimiter by Corion
in thread Abritrary multiple spaces as delimiter by Weisshaupt

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