(I'm still not a daily map user, but maybe I'm getting there?)
perldoc -f map
Answer:
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map { s/\s+$// } @j;
Demo code:
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$ cat j.pl
my @j = ("a ", "b ", "c ");
print join "|", @j;
print "\n";
map { s/\s+$// } @j;
print join "|", @j;
print "\n";
Demo run:
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$ perl j.pl
a |b |c
a|b|c
Cheers,
j