The data that is being parsed seems to be made up of 6 fields. There is a 3rd option to split, which is the number of fields to return. The follow code is simple and doesn't require an external module and based on the data given in the example, produces the desired output.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(pp);

while(<DATA>){
    s/^\s+//;
    chomp;
    my @points = split(/\s+/, $_, 6);
    print "\n\@points =\n", pp \@points;
    #More code here
}

__DATA__
   0.000           12      0.232           13      11      text that c
+an have space
   1.000           13      0.534           14      12      More text t
+hat would be ok
   2.000           14      0.876           15      13      yet more te
+xt
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