>line = 'my_service foo yashi 25 bar $1,000,000,000,000' # ;p
>
>service, ignore, name, age, ignore, salary = line.split
>$, = "\t"
>
>print name, age, salary, service, "\n"
>--
>           yashi
>

That's it, bravo. Your salary is not 2 cents at all.
My code sample is naive, there are cases where interpolation of variables 
inside double quotes are required, #{...} is the only option.

Dat
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