As an general practice, I do not fiddle around with $1 and $2. I use list context to assign these variables to specific names. This avoids some complications and is not "expensive" in terms of CPU..
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<DATA>)
{
if ( (my $first,my $second) = /^([^ ]+) ([^ ]+)/ )
{
print "$first $second\n";
}
}
#prints: hello one
__DATA__
hello one two three
kjsf
kjsd
kjd
Now of course the regex could be written differently. This means the same thing.
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<DATA>)
{
if ( (my $first,my $second) = /^(\S+)\s+(\S+)/ ) #ok, allow an extra
+ spaces between tokens
{
print "$first $second\n";
}
}
#prints: hello one
__DATA__
hello one two three
kjsf
kjsd
kjd
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