string parsing in perl

[jjeanj1]

i have a text file with lines as such:

Paul simon robert jones
eddy Rick dave smith paul

where paul simon could be the First name.

and Robert Jones could be the last name.

i need a split routine that would capture these field. Please help

[KevinADC]

All you really have to do is split the lines on the spaces(s)

@fields = split(/\s+/,$line)

where $line is each line of the file as you loop through it. Please post the code you have tried so far fr more help or read a perl tutorial:

http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

[jjeanj1]

Thanks kevin i will come back with more info

[jjeanj1]

This is he formart of the file with many more entries.

E 100200 A Gizzi  Avila         aldo gonzalo 

E 1023877 A Arias Briones       Claudio Andres

now i need to be able to capture from each line :

100200--> employee number

Action--> A

Last name--> Gizzi Avila (that's the tricky part)

First Name---> Aldo gonzalo (That's the tricky part)


now this is the code that i have

$UNIXFILE = "unixinfo.txt";
open(UNIXFILE) or die("Could not open UNIX FILE.");
foreach $line (<UNIXFILE>) {
 
($e,$id,$action,$first_name,$name)=split(/\s+/ ,$line);
 
#print" $e";
 
print"employee id: $id ";
 
print"Action: $action ";
 
print"First Name: $first_name ";
 
print"$name\n";
 
}
close(UNIXFILE);

NOtice that the last name and first name can have up to 3 diffren names and i need to capture that as on name.