How do I retrieve specific column values from a table of records?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The file is in the form of records and columns. I want to retrieve values only for a specific coloumn.How do I do that? EX:

name      address          phone         city   
chang     12, annie road   201-243-6751  newark
ming      13,dgadadgagd    62839871273   trenton
gigi      14,gasdha        982318791     wilmingto
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I want to retrive values for phone and address columns only.

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