title: How can I extract columns from a fixed-width format in Perl?
body: <p>I'm writing a Perl script to run through and grab various data elements such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1253592000
  1253678400                 86400                 6183.000000
  1253764800                 86400                 4486.000000 
  1253851200  36.000000      86400                10669.000000
  1253937600  0.000000       86400                 9126.000000
  1254024000  0.000000       86400                 2930.000000
  1254110400  0.000000       86400                 2895.000000
  1254196800  0.000000                             8828.000000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can grab each line of this text file no problem. </p>
  
  <p>I have working regex to grab each of those fields. Once I have the line in a variable, i.e. $line - how can I grab each of those fields and place them into their own variables even though they have different delimiters?</p>