If not using length() direcly on @world_list:
@word_list = qw(bla bla bla bla bla joah hey);
foreach $element (@word_list) {
local($content);
my(@lengths);
$content = length($element);
push(@lengths, $element); # or different order, I always forgot this :)
}
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From: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Erik Browaldh"
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Subject: Re: transforming strings to an array of characters
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:35:04 -0500
I know this has already been answered, but usually you can do things more
efficiently on the string itself...what are you trying to do?
Tanton
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From: "Erik Browaldh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:24 AM
Subject: transforming strings to an array of characters
> hi everyone!
>
> if I have a string, lets say
> $word="perl";
>
> I want to copy this so I have something like this:
> @word_list["p","e","r","l"]
>
> also, how do I get the length of @word_list?
>
> thanks in advance!
> Erik
>
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