First, see ztk-visual-top-w-kill. In that app, one of my apps named "home/zentara/bin/claws" shows up as a name 3 in the output. I think this is a top bug, where for some reason I'm getting a scalar of an array for that name? Anyways, I would appreciate it if anyone could explain it. Below is a simplified version. Maybe it dosn't show on your machine? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;

my $pid1 = open3(0, \*READ,\*ERR,"top -d 1 -b");

while(1){
  my @words = split(/\s+/,<READ>);
print "@words\n";
}

waitpid($pid, 1);

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In reply to unexplained output from top in batch mode by zentara

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