Importing text file with variable spaces

Hi all
I have a text file with a varying amount of spaces in it. Typical output from the file is attached.
How can I separate the values into separate columns please?
Thanks in advance.

You're going to need some substrings:
DECLARE @flatFileLine VARCHAR(MAX) = '2002 01118511 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 PENDING '
SELECT
SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,1,4),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,5,17),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,22,17),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,39,17),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,56,17),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,73,17),SUBSTRING(@flatFileLine,90,17)

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