I need help extracting part of a list. I have a list that is structured as such:
data1 data2 data3 data4 data5
I need to define data1 and data4 as bad data and extract and print data2, data3, and data5. How can I do that?

Please allow me to rephrase ...

I have an original list that looks like so: (it is much longer but this will give the idea)
"601-4001", "Disaster, Recovery" "601-4066", "Dial, " "601-4080", "Business, Line, " "601-4101", "Eric, Forward" "601-4102", "Jimmy, FWD" "601-4261", "Scott, " "601-4262", "Cecelia, " "601-4263", "Frederick, " "601-4269", "Rick, " "601-4270", "KENNETH, " "601-4272", "Sandra, " "601-4273", "800, redirect" "601-4274", "Suzanne, "
I want to identify the non-human entries as bad data and print the rest. I have this so far but do not know how to print what is not identified:
open(PBXFILE, "c:\/gabi\/global_address.txt") || die "cannot open: $! +"; while (<PBXFILE>) { chomp; {s/"//g } {s/,//g } } # Create a blacklist of numbers that do not map to a person @blacklistA = qw( 601-4001 Disaster Recovery 601-4066 Dial 601-4080 Business Line 601-4101 Eric Forward 601-4102 Jimmy FWD 601-4273 800 redirect );
can someone guide me?

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