This should satisfy your requirements, assuming you didn't leave any tricky stuff (like leading whitespaces) out of your OP. Either way, you might want to make sure the regex matched before assigning anything. I assumed that there were a variable number of spaces between the username and the data, since the OP didn't contain a tab. 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $line = 'username    Real Name|email@gmail.com|2|30|';

my ( $name, $data ) = $line =~ m/^(\S+)\s+(.+)$/;

print "[$name][$data]";

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If you had a %users hash, you could then do $users{$name} = $data.

HTH

In reply to Re: regex to split a line by bobf
in thread regex to split a line by Anonymous Monk

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