This will work *if* you can guarentee that each of your two variable length fields will only contain single spaces?
my $s = '122 Genesis Chamber Mark Tedin
+ A U';
print join '|', $s =~ m[^(\S+)\s+\b(.*)\b\s{2,}\b(.*)\b\s{2,}(\S)\s+(\
+S)$];
122|Genesis Chamber|Mark Tedin|A|U
m[^ # With the $, match the whole line
(\S+) # The first field contains no spaces
\s+ # and is separated from the next by at least 1
\b(.*)\b # 2nd field starts/stops on a word boundary
# it can contain anything,
\s{2,} # but only single concecutive spaces.
\b(.*)\b # 3rd field is similarly defined
\s{2,} # Again, 2 or more spaces defined the end of field
(\S) # 4th Single non-space char
\s+ # 1 or more spaces
(\S) # 5th Single char.
$]x
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