I have an array with a bunch of empty strings, and other "empty" items, that I want to remove. Perl's grep() command makes this very simple:

@a = ("one", "", "three", "four", 0, "", undef, "eight");

@b = grep($_, @a);

# @b = ("one","three","four","eight");

The first argument to grep is an expression which evaluates whether $_ is a truthy value. This could easily also have been $_ ne "" so we don't also filter out "" and 0.