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Got it!

The only piece in the code I am wondering about is where you are checking for rules 3 and 4 and use "$subword . q{s}..."

I know what it is doing but where did the "q" come from?

Thank you!

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Re^11: Words in Words
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 03, 2011 at 00:16 UTC

    http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators 
    Customary  Generic        Meaning        Interpolates
    ''       q{}          Literal             no
    ""      qq{}          Literal             yes
    ``      qx{}          Command             yes*
            qw{}         Word list            no
    //       m{}       Pattern match          yes*
            qr{}          Pattern             yes*
             s{}{}      Substitution          yes*
            tr{}{}    Transliteration         no (but see below)
             y{}{}    Transliteration         no (but see below)
    <<EOF                 here-doc            yes*

    * unless the delimiter is ''.

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