Question : Split on Whitespace

This is not a homework assignment.  
I am attempting to split a line on the whitespace in order to create fields for the line.  There are about 10 whitespaces on a given line.

How is this done?

Answer : Split on Whitespace

if it prints the entire line, then the space in the line might actually be \t, is that the case?

If you want to be safe, use @fields = split /\s+/, $line;