foreach my $record ( @emails ) { my $email_address = $record->[1]; # now do something with your email address. } #### foreach my $record ( @emails ) { if( $record =~ m/\S+\s+(\S+)/ ) { my $email_address = $1; # Do something with $email_address } else { die "Bad record format.\n"; } #### $record =~ m/(\S+\@\S+)$/