I'm trying to parse CLI output but occasionally have a column with no data. Any regex tricks I can use to capture that? Here is my code:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my $string = "";
my @data = ();

while(<DATA>) {

    push @data, $_;
    $_ =~ s/\n/  /g; 

    $string .= $_;

}

my %hash = ();
foreach ( @data ) {
    chomp;
    my @array = split (/\s+/, $_);
    print Dumper(@array);
    print "\n";
}


__DATA__
Port         Alias            Oper     Admin   Speed  Duplex  Type
             (truncated)      Status   Status  (bps)
------------ ---------------- -------- ------- ------ ------- --------
+----------
vlan.0.4094                   up       up                     other
host.0.1                      up       up       10.0M         other
ge.1.1                        down     up       10.0M half    10-t    
+     rj45
ge.1.2                        down     up       10.0M half    10-t    
+     rj45
ge.1.3                        down     up       10.0M half    10-t    
+     rj45
ge.1.4                        down     up       10.0M half    10-t    
+     rj45
ge.1.5                        down     up       10.0M half    10-t    
+     rj45
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