Greetings friends, I did a super search for removing spaces, and wasn't quite sure how it carried over to an array. I am trying to read data from a file, split it, into an array and then print elements into another file.

Data format:

Dummy,Big I, <bdummy@name.com>
Fool,Yuri A., <yfool@name.com>
Stupid,Issac A., <istupid@name.com>

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Here is the code i am using:

#!d:\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use warnings;


my $oldfile = $ARGV[0];
my $newfile = $oldfile . ".clean.txt"; 

open (OLDFILE, "$oldfile") || die "Could not open $oldfile";
open (NEWFILE, ">$newfile") || die "Could not open $newfile";


while (<OLDFILE>)
{
    my @record = split /(["<",">"])/;
    print NEWFILE "@record[0...4,]";
    print NEWFILE "$record[6]\n";    
}


close OLDFILE;
close NEWFILE;

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Here is the data that gets generated: 

Dummy , Big I , bdummy@name.com
Fool , Yuri A. , yfool@name.com
Stupid , Issac A. , istupid@name.com

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I keep getting spaces added after the fields.

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In reply to Why do spaces keep getting added after I print the elements of an array? by scottstef

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