Ok, I tried this, but for some reason it still didn't work. I have code as follows: 
my @line = grep { length > 0 } split ( /\S+/, $_ );
print "$line[0]\t$line[1]\n";

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Where $_ will look something like this: 
    STATUS        mandatory

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Now, I'd assume that it would therefore print: 
STATUS    mandatory

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But instead, all I get are blank lines. Can anyone think what's going wrong?

Also, grep{length>0} is much preferable to grep{length}. The latter accomplishes absolutely nothing, fails for returns of "" so is actually somewhat buggy, and detracts from readability. The only real reason I can see to use it is a desire to show off, an impulse which should be squelched at every opportunity.

UPDATE:Ok, I'm an idiot, but I will leave my stupidity on display for others benefit. I just noticed that I'm splitting on \S+, not \s+. So amazingly, perl did exactly what I told it to do. I just told it to do something extremely counter-productive : )

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