Hi Monks,
I am trying to parse a text file with has probably two thousand lines or more sometimes and I cant figure it out the best way of doing this since the spaces between each row can be different. Any one has any suggestions? I need to insert this data into a database after it all done. I have included a 2 lines text test file to show how these lines are. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open (FILE, 'my_file.txt');
 while (<FILE>) {
 chomp;
my ($a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f, $g, $h) = (split)[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]; # it
+ doesn't  work here cause of the spaces in the names it
 # print data to get it ready to be inserted into db
print "$a - $b - $c - $d - $e - $f - $g - $h\n";
 }
 close (FILE);
 exit;

<code><br>
Test file:
<code>
2009122233388675647               9988230       2009-01-01     JOE DOE
+ JR                 JOEDOEJRWX@EMAIL.COM                             
+        COMPANY JOES C. LTD., CORP. 1900-01-01 00:00:00.000 1900-01-0
+1 00:00:00.000 
20091222333886756                 99882308K     2010-01-01     JOE DOE
+                    JOEDOEJRWX@TEST.COM                              
+        COMP INS  / CORP. LTDA      1900-01-01 00:00:00.000 1900-01-0
+1 00:00:00.000

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Thanks for looking!

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