title: File with irregular spaces and tabs split/explode columnwise
body: <p>So I have a very old file with thousands of lines (I guess generated by hand) and I'm trying to move them into a rdb, but the lines don't have a format/pattern to convert into columns. Say for example the lines in the file looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>blah   blahsdfas    laslkdlasdj      aksdjla
  sldks  slslsl      lsdlksldj           lsdjlfslk
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I could say it has four fields when I look at it, primarily tried using awk but it wasn't printing the column as expected because the space between a column is not tab or with an equal space count.</p>
  
  <p>You guys think its possible to extract? If yes can someone help with a php snippet?</p>