I have a scalar varible storing data seperated by commas and newline characters. An example of that data would be something like:

John,Doe,Pine St,12345
Jane,Doe,Aspen Way,45678
Andy,Smith,Park St,79845

I use the following command to convert that data into a 2d array.
my @temp = map { [split /,/] } (split/\n/,$data);

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after converting the data into a 2d array I would extract only the last names into an array. I would do something like this.
my @lastNames;
for my $i ( 0..$#temp)
{
push @lastName, $temp[$i][1];
}

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I wanted to know if there was a way to skip the step of converting the scalar into a 2d array and go straight to the single array of the data I need. Any help I can get would be great.

In reply to Extracting data from a 2D array by fenonn

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