Hello,

I'm working on splitting an array into some pre-defined columns, but the last column is made of several strings which basically is anything left after the pre-defined columns have been identified.

Below is my script and it is working correctly, but I feel the code is clunky especially on lines 7 & 10 where I split the rows and I had to join the last 'column'.
Is there a way to optimize this further? Is there a way where I do not need to define each column when I'm splitting them up? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
    my @rows;
    my ($name, $tel, $col3, $col4,           # lines 7
      $col5, $col6, @notes) = split;

    push (@rows, $name, $tel, $col3, $col4,  # lines 10
      $col5, $col6, (join " ", @notes) );

    print join " ", @rows , "\n";
}


__DATA__
abc  322 2/3/09 aaa aadda dasdas a1 a2 a3
def  433 3/4/08 dasd bdbdbd wings b1 b2 b3 b4 b5

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In reply to Optimizing Splitting of Array by bichonfrise74

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