I have a string and wanted to split it at the first space. Doing that part with split was easy, but then I thought of another format the string could be would brake the code because some of the data would have spaces in it.

The first code with 'that=x x' being the format error:

my $string = <<HTML;
this=x that=x x another=x thing=x
HTML

    my @array2 = split(/\s/, $string);
 
 print $_."\n" foreach (@array2);
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Im going to answer my own question but I wanted to show this method and ask if anyone else knows another way to format the string the same way in maybe less lines.

The second code with the fix for the above issue:

my $string = <<HTML;
this=x that=x x another=x thing=x
HTML

$string =~ s/ (\w+\=)/ \|$1/g; 
my @array2 = split(/\s\|/, $string);
 
 print $_."\n" foreach (@array2);
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