I seem to be running into a problem. Whenever I try to execute your script, I get a "Too many arguments for open at datasearch.pl line 3, near ""data.txt") "
What am I doing wrong?

My current code is pretty much what Saintly gave me: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

open(my $fh, "<", "data.txt") || die "Can't open file: $!";

# Run through all lines of the file, one by one
while(my $line = <$fh>) {
  # Break up the line on whitespace, assign columns to vars
  my(
    $score,$scorePoints,
    $time,$timePoints,
    $record,$recordPoints,
    $size,$sizePoints,
    $age,$agePoints,
    $diff,$diffPoints,
    $size2,$size2Points,
    $name
  ) = split(/\s+/,$line,13);

  # Check to see if name matches
  if($name =~ /(intrepid|triumph)/) {
    print 
      "$name\n",
      "Time: $timePoints, Difficulty: $diffPoints\n\n";
  }
}

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