Considering that all your columns are treated equally, I don't understand why you put the first 7 columns in separate variables, and the rest into an array. Might as well put everything in an array (but see remark below).

Since @rows is empty when you assign to it, no need to push onto it. You could write: 

my @rows = ($name, $tel, $col3, $col4, $col5, $col6, join " ", @notes)
+;

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as well.

But looking at the code, all it archieves is collapsing multiple whitespace into a single space. I'd write it as: 

while (<DATA>) {
    s/\s+$//;
    s/\s+/ /g;
    print $_, "\n";
}

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which should do the same. No splitting and joining needed.

In reply to Re: Optimizing Splitting of Array by JavaFan
in thread Optimizing Splitting of Array by bichonfrise74

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