Your data looks structured. If you want to relate the name to the number you can use a hash instead of an array:

my $string = "bob 299 frank 107 ted 300";
my %hash = split /\s+/, $string;

foreach (keys %hash) {
    print "$_, $hash{$_}\n";
}
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or: Since you mentioned that you want to read them from a file, and using an array (becuase your subject asks for it :-) ).

my $file = "/home/andrew/data.txt";
my @array;
open (FOO, $file) or die "can't open $file";

while (<FOO>) {
    @array = (@array, split /\s+/, $_);
};

foreach (@array) {
    print "$_\n";
};
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Nuance

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