How to get the column values which are sepertaed by comma in Perl script

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input string is:

A,01/01/1900,12/30/9999, 2AB9500,A9,8999,BNVV

I want to get the 4th element and remove the space for that field and join it back to the string.

What I have tried:

I tried :

@capture = $string =~ /([^,]+)/g; # capture all the fields with spaces
$capture[pos] =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
$string = join '',@capture;

Posted 21-Dec-17 0:47am

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Updated 21-Dec-17 13:06pm

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Mohibur Rashid · Answer 1 · 2017-12-21T13:06:00

If all your requirement is to remove the space then

$string =~ s/\s//g;

should be fine

if you only want to filter the index-4 item leave other as it is then try the following example

PERL

$line="A,01/01/1900,12/30/9999, 2AB9500,A9,8999,BNVV";
@arr=split /\//, $line; 
$arr[4] =~ s/\s//g; 
$line=join "/", @arr; 
print $line."\n";