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Another slightly different solution is to have as the last element in the list of variables to be stuffed with the split elements, an array. This will then collect all the last elements not stored in the previous variables. Thus you have all the "unused" elements together, nicely separated, ready to be used as and when necessary.
my ($e1, $e2, @e3) = split /\s/, $string;

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