This doesn't work either:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Data::Dumper;
my $addresses = '  foo@foo.com bar@bar.com,   foo@foobar.com
bar@foo.com , bar@foobar.com        ';
my @addresses = split /(?:\s|,)+/, $addresses;
print Dumper \@addresses;
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produces:

$VAR1 = [
          '',
          'foo@foo.com',
          'bar@bar.com',
          'foo@foobar.com',
          'bar@foo.com',
          'bar@foobar.com'
        ];
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I agree that parsing email addresses via a regex is next to impossible, but fortunately for me I'm not required to verify the addresses :-)

BlueLines

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