s/\b(qu|[^\W0-9_aeiou]+)?(\w+)/$1?"$2\0$1ay":"$2\0ay"/egi; #### package PigLatin; use overload ( q{""} => sub { (my $str = ${ $_[0] }) =~ tr/\0//d; return $str; }, fallback => 1, ); sub to { my ($class,$word) = @_; $word =~ s/\b(qu|[^\W0-9_aeiou]+)?(\w+)/$1?"$2\0$1ay":"$2\0ay"/egi; bless \$word, $class; } sub from { my $word = substr ${ $_[-1] }, 0, -2; # $word has the \0 in it return join "", reverse split /\0/, $word; } 1; #### use PigLatin; $plain = "Practical Extraction and Report Language"; $funny = to PigLatin $plain; $reg = from PigLatin $funny;