I think you are looking at two different things here, firstly if you print @array as: 

print "@array";

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you will get the elements of @array separated by the value of $" (aka $LIST_SEPARATOR if using the English module). so you can do: 
local $" = '';
print "@array";

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will not output the spaces - of course in this simple case you can simply omit the double quotes and the items will not be separated, I am assuming you are interpolating into a larger quoted string.

If you want to remove any array elements that comprise only whitespace you can use grep : 

@array = grep !/^\s+$/, @array;

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You could also use map to strip leading or trailing whitespace from the elements: 
@code = map { s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; $_ } @array;

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and so forth.

/J\

In reply to Re: remove whitespace from an array by gellyfish
in thread remove whitespace from an array by Anonymous Monk

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