Hello Fellow Monks
I wrote a perl script to seperate long lists of email seperated by a semi colon. What I would like to do with the code is combine the split with the trimming of white space so I don't need two arrays. Is there away to trim while loading the first array. Output is a sorted list of names.
Thanks.

#!/pw/prod/svr4/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $file_data =
  'Builder, Bob  ;Stein, Franklin MSW; Boop, Elizabeth PHD   Cc: Bear,
+ Izzy';
my @email_list;

$file_data =~ s/CC:/;/ig;
$file_data =~ s/PHD//ig;
$file_data =~ s/MSW//ig;

my @tmp_data = split( /;/, $file_data );

foreach my $entry (@tmp_data) {
    $entry =~ s/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$//g;
    push( @email_list, $entry );
}

foreach my $name ( sort(@email_list) ) {
    print "$name \n";
}
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