How can I remove leading and trailing whitespaces from array elements?

I have an array that contains string which may contain whitespaces appended to the end. I need to remove those spaces using perl script. my array will look like this

@array = ("shayam    "," Ram        "," 24.0       ");

I need the output as

@array = ("shayam","Ram","24.0");

I tried with chomp (@array). It is not working with the strings.