Hi Monks!

I am having an issue here that I can't think how to solve it, the problem is that the result(s) back from this code is not return the sum I am expecting, I found by running the commented test code on code that the value for $type "W" is been returned with an extra space after the W, like: $VAR1 = [ [ 'W ', '4' ] ]; as you can see here.
How could I remove any extra spaces before they reach the line
my $array_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref(); or any other solution to prevent that.

Thanks for the help!!! 
....
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute() || die $sth->errstr;

#test values here:::
#use Data::Dumper;
#my $array_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;
#print Dumper $array_ref;
#end test:::

my $array_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref();

  foreach $row (@$array_ref)
    {
    ($type, $total) = @$row;
    if ($type eq "A"){$a = $total;}
    if ($type eq "B"){$b = $total;}
    if ($type eq "C"){$c = $total;}
    if ($type eq "D"){$d = $total;}
    if ($type eq "W"){$w = $total;}
    }

$total = $a + $b + $c + $d + $w;

print "$w\n";
print "$total\n";

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