To expand a little upon the unpack function (from Perl Best Practices) 
use Readonly;
Readonly my $FIELD_LAYOUT => 'A10 A20 A10'; # 10 ASCII characters, 20 
+ASCII characters, 10 ASCII characters;

foreach my $line (@file) {
  my ($program, $junk, $date) = unpack $FIELD_LAYOUT, $line;

  print "Program: $program\n";
  print "Date:    $date\n";
}

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I found this code layout a bit easier to understand but it is still basically the same as what japhy Re: Split a Line posted.

In reply to Re: Split a Line by Herkum
in thread Split a Line by curtisb

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