Here is a more "perlish" Warning-free way: (Deliberately avoiding regular expressions) 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @values;
my $special_string_found = 0;
my $special_string = 'time values:';

while (defined( my $line= <DATA>)) {
   if (not $special_string_found ){
      next unless  $special_string eq substr($line,0,length($special_s
+tring));
      $special_string_found = 1;
      $line = substr($line,length($special_string)+1);
   }
   push @values, split(' ' ,$line);
}

print qq|$_\n| for @values;
__DATA__
TIME
number of steps:          13
time values:  2.83506E+03  2.83697E+03  2.83911E+03
 2.84117E+03  2.84331E+03  2.84544E+03
 2.84750E+03  2.84958E+03  2.85172E+03
 2.85383E+03  2.85588E+03  2.85804E+03
 2.86012E+03

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In reply to Re: getting numeric data from a file into an array by NetWallah
in thread getting numeric data from a file into an array by jmccaslin

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