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If there is always going to spaces between them you might want to look at split

#an example
($title, $letter1, $num, $letter2) = split(/ /,$_);

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Re: Re: regex problem
by indie_campbell (Novice) on Apr 09, 2004 at 19:26 UTC
    would this be useful if the input file had multiple entries of the example line, with other infomration embedded? 
    #  TITLE C 4 B
    INFO
    INFO
#  TITLE A 4 B

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      Yes it would ... 
      #an example
($title, $letter1, $num, $letter2) = split(/ /,$_) if /^#  TITLE/;

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