umm so i went back and realized that my program wasn't
preservering the spaces. so I went back and fixed it, but now this program is like too messy Isn't there a someway to do ([^ ]+)(\s+){17}   ?? 
use strict;
my $count = 1;

while (<>) {
    if ( m/^\^sip/ ) {
      s/([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        ([^ ]+)(\s+)
        (\d{1,3})(\s+)
        (\d+)$
        /$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9$10$11$12$13$14$15$16$17$18$19$20$21$22$23$
+24$25$26$27$28$29$30$31$32$33$34${count}$36$37/x;
      $count++;
    } 
    print ;
}

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