Esteemed Monks, my mental resources are depleted trying to tackle this issue, I have a file of records that has the following form 
Character                        Count Length Pro_ID
Timothy Watson 12 Medulla    W     W      W
W                            W     W      ID:10
W                            W     W      ID:11
W                            W     W      ID:12
W                            W     W      ID:13
W                            W     W      ID:14
W                            5     W      W
W                            W     16     W
Maya Alabina 5 Exo           W     W      W
W                            W     W      ID:28
W                            W     W      ID:30
W                            1     W      W
W                            W     11     W

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However, I want to clean up the 'W' chars and yet keep the table intact but better aligned, considering the 'W' to be a white space I thought substituting it can allow me to reposition the non-'W' column values to the top of the column such as: 
Character                        Count Length Pro_ID
Timothy Watson 12 Medulla         5     16    ID:10
                                              ID:11
                                              ID:12
                                              ID:13
                                              ID:14
Maya Alabina 5 Exo               1      11    ID:28  
                                              ID:30

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As you see, each Character has many records associated with it but they need to be aligned properly to reflect this....

I tried with Perl6::Form, Text::Tabulate then many other cpan Modules that provide matrices manipulation but they don't seem to achieve my requirement and I tried with AoAs but couldn't make it finally but back to the code where I started which doesn't produce the layout I seek:

while(my $line = <DATA>){
        chomp;
        #print "$line######\n" ;
        @array = split(/E/,$line);
        print @array;
        }

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Thanking you, this is going to prove a great milestone in my Perl learning journey...

In reply to Remove unwanted chars and maintain table integrity by Anonymous Monk

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