diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index a23dbd38..66d09b28 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Revision history for Perl extension PPI
 
 {{$NEXT}}
 	- Allow zero byte documents to have a location
+	- Allow variable names to have whitespace after the sigil (GH#158)
 
 1.281   2024-12-27 14:44:47Z
 	Summary:
diff --git a/lib/PPI/Token/Symbol.pm b/lib/PPI/Token/Symbol.pm
index 99e7ca88..2143e121 100644
--- a/lib/PPI/Token/Symbol.pm
+++ b/lib/PPI/Token/Symbol.pm
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ sub __TOKENIZER__on_char {
 
 	# Suck in till the end of the symbol
 	pos $t->{line} = $t->{line_cursor};
-	if ( $t->{line} =~ m/\G([\w:\']+)/gc ) {
+	if ( $t->{line} =~ m/\G(\s*[\w:\']+)/gc ) {
 		$t->{token}->{content} .= $1;
 		$t->{line_cursor}      += length $1;
 	}
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ sub __TOKENIZER__on_char {
 	my $pattern = qr/
 	^(
 		[\$@%&*]
+		\s*
 		(?:
 				: (?! : )			# allow single-colon non-magic variables
 			|
diff --git a/lib/PPI/Token/Unknown.pm b/lib/PPI/Token/Unknown.pm
index 86db997b..e7fd1a00 100644
--- a/lib/PPI/Token/Unknown.pm
+++ b/lib/PPI/Token/Unknown.pm
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ sub __TOKENIZER__on_char {
 			return 1;
 		}
 
+		if ( $char eq ' ' ) {
+			pos $t->{line} = $t->{line_cursor} + 1;
+			if ( $t->{line} =~ m/\G\s*[a-z_]/gci ) {
+				$t->{class} = $t->{token}->set_class('Symbol');
+				return 1;
+			}
+		}
+
 		# Is it a nameless arg in a signature?
 		if ( $char eq ')' or $char eq '=' or $char eq ',' ) {
 			my ($has_sig) = $t->_current_token_has_signatures_active;
diff --git a/t/foreach_whitespace.t b/t/foreach_whitespace.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..154af978
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/foreach_whitespace.t
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+BEGIN { chdir ".." if -d "../t" and -d "../lib" }
+use lib 't/lib';
+use PPI::Test::pragmas;
+use Test::More tests => 8 + ( $ENV{AUTHOR_TESTING} ? 1 : 0 );
+
+use B 'perlstring';
+
+use PPI ();
+use PPI::Dumper;
+
+sub test_document;
+
+BASE_SPACE_SYMBOL: {
+	test_document    #
+	  '$ s',         #
+	  [
+		'PPI::Statement',     '$ s',    #
+		'PPI::Token::Symbol', '$ s',
+	  ],
+	  "base space symbol example";
+}
+
+FOR_LOOP: {
+	test_document
+	  'for my $ s ( qw( a b ) ) { say $s }',
+	  [
+		'PPI::Statement::Compound',     'for my $ s ( qw( a b ) ) { say $s }',
+		'PPI::Token::Word',             'for',
+		'PPI::Token::Word',             'my',
+		'PPI::Token::Symbol',           '$ s',
+		'PPI::Structure::List',         '( qw( a b ) )',
+		'PPI::Token::Structure',        '(',
+		'PPI::Statement',               'qw( a b )',
+		'PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Words', 'qw( a b )',
+		'PPI::Token::Structure',        ')',
+		'PPI::Structure::Block',        '{ say $s }',
+		'PPI::Token::Structure',        '{',
+		'PPI::Statement',               'say $s',
+		'PPI::Token::Word',             'say',
+		'PPI::Token::Symbol',           '$s',
+		'PPI::Token::Structure',        '}',
+	  ],
+	  "space symboln in for loop";
+}
+
+SIGIL_WITH_TRASH: {
+	test_document
+	  '$ \"8;b',
+	  [
+		'PPI::Statement',            '$ \\"8;b',
+		'PPI::Token::Cast',          '$',
+		'PPI::Token::Cast',          '\\',
+		'PPI::Token::Quote::Double', '"8;b',
+	  ],
+	  "sigil with a space and trash that is NOT a symbol";
+}
+
+SIGIL_WITH_TABS_AND_TRAIL: {
+	test_document    #
+	  '$ 	 b 	 ',    #
+	  [              #
+		'PPI::Statement',     "\$ \t b",
+		'PPI::Token::Symbol', "\$ \t b",
+	  ],
+	  "sigil with tabs and trailing space";
+}
+
+sub one_line_explain {
+	my ($data) = @_;
+	my @explain = explain $data;
+	s/\n//g for @explain;
+	return join "", @explain;
+}
+
+sub main_level_line {
+	return "" if not $TODO;
+	my @outer_final;
+	my $level = 0;
+	while ( my @outer = caller( $level++ ) ) {
+		@outer_final = @outer;
+	}
+	return "l $outer_final[2] - ";
+}
+
+sub test_document {
+	local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+	my $args = ref $_[0] eq "ARRAY" ? shift : [];
+	my ( $code, $expected, $msg ) = @_;
+	$msg = perlstring $code if !defined $msg;
+
+	my $d = PPI::Document->new( \$code, @{$args} ) or do {
+		diag explain $@;
+		fail "PPI::Document->new failed";
+		fail "code round trips";
+		return;
+	};
+	my $tokens = $d->find( sub { $_[1]->significant } );
+	$tokens = [ map { ref($_), $_->content } @$tokens ];
+
+	is $d->serialize, $code, "code round trips";
+
+	return if    #
+	  is_deeply( $tokens, $expected, main_level_line . $msg );
+
+	diag ">>> $code -- $msg\n";
+	diag( PPI::Dumper->new($d)->string );
+	diag one_line_explain $tokens;
+	diag one_line_explain $expected;
+
+	return;
+}