What is the content of $times? Can you provide a script that can actually be run to reproduce the problem that you are having? "does not work" does not tell us what you expected, nor what you got.

The following code may be a good starting point:

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my @Names = split ',';
    
    print "@Names\n";
}

__DATA__
Peter,Fred,Joe
Sam,Anna,Sue

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Prints:

Peter Fred Joe
Sam Anna Sue

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Loading data into an array from a file problem by GrandFather
in thread Loading data into an array from a file problem by pglinx

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