Parsing a HTML page I have the contents of a set of paragraphs, the general form:

Integer. Text - or – more text
e.g.

123. The quick brown fox - Jumps over the
123. The quick brown fox – Jumps over the
456. The lazy dog - Barked & wagged

results

$num = 123;
$text1 = 'The quick brown fox';
$text2 = 'Jumps over the';
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Right now I'm capturing the three variables I need using index & substr a bunch but was hoping for a cleaner, more perlish solution. TIA