Review this code: Goal is to remove empty lines only, not the |. thank you 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $test = qq(/etc/skel/test);
my ($id,$name,$hash);
open (my $test1, "+<", $test) or die "file '$test' was not opened $!";
my (%HoA,$HoA);

while(<$test1>) {
    s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
    y/^\S|\S$//d;
    ($id,$name)=split(/\|/,$_);
    push @{$HoA{$id}}, $name;
}

print Dumper(\%HoA);

for my $i (sort keys %HoA) {
   print "$i -- @{ $HoA{$i} }\n";
}

__DATA__

$ cat -etu test
1|Michael$
1|Alex$
1|Bob$
1|Pete$
2|Bob$
2|Andre$
2|David$
2|Alex$
3|Pete$
$
$

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