#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'i am us$ing moni$ka expressi$on'; my @array = (split /\$/,$string); my $flag = 0; my $line = ""; foreach my $element (@array) { if ($flag == 0) { $line = $element; $flag =1; } else { $line = $line.'\$'.$element; } } print $line;