yes, this is the only type of question I ever ask.

Suppose I have a line that begins with nine whitespaces followed by a particular value, followed by 10 more whitespaces, then another value, so it looks like this: 
         none          lt2dpmnt
(This is merely an example; this occurs many times throughout the data file, and I need get out each and every instance of it to be put in a table.)

I want to get those two values and put them into variables. I have tried this in a variety of ways: 
(\$meanH1, $meanH2) = ($1, $2) if /^s{9}/;

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This didn't work, so I tried this: 
(\$meanH1, $meanH2) = ($1, $2) if /^s+/;

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This too did not work. Really, it seems almost laughably simple, and I am rather embarassed by my inability to get it right. Little help?

In reply to regular expressions query by apocalyptica

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