#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict; 

use Text::CSV;
use Data::Dumper; # a core module
use Data::Dump qw(pp);

open my $io, '<', 
\q{"My Company","Gavin","Henry ","ghenry@ghenry.co.uk"," 1.00"};

my $csv = Text::CSV->new(); # nothing "fancy" needed here
                            # defaults are fine

while ( my $row = $csv->getline($io) ) 
{
   
   my @fields =map {  
                      s/^\s*//;  #delete leading spaces
                      s/\s*$//;  #delete trailing spaces
                      $_;  #this is the "return value" from map
                           #map returns the value of the last
                           #statement - without this $_; you
                           #get the zero or non-zero scalar value
                           #of the last s/// statement
                   } @$row;
   print "Using pp from Data::Dump...\n";
   print pp \@fields;
   print "\n";
   print "Using Dumper from Data::Dumper...\n";
   print Dumper \@fields;
   print "\n";
   print "5th field is $fields[4]\n";

}
__END__
Prints:

Using pp from Data::Dump...
["My Company", "Gavin", "Henry", "ghenry\@ghenry.co.uk", "1.00"]
Using Dumper from Data::Dumper...
$VAR1 = [
          'My Company',
          'Gavin',
          'Henry',
          'ghenry@ghenry.co.uk',
          '1.00'
        ];

5th field is 1.00