This doesn't work:

while ( <DATA> ) {
    push @addrs, split /(?:\s+,?\s*|,\s*)/, $_;
}
print Dumper \@addrs;
__DATA__
  foo@foo.com bar@bar.com,   foo@foobar.com
bar@foo.com , bar@foobar.com
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produces the following output:

$VAR1 = [
          '',
          'foo@foo.com',
          'bar@bar.com',
          'foo@foobar.com',
          'bar@foo.com',
          'bar@foobar.com'
        ];
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That empty entry at $addrs[0] is what I'm trying to avoid.

BlueLines

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