#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @Array = ('AAA','BB','CCCC','DD','EEEEE','FFF','GGGG'); my $num_of_skip =2; my $skipping = 0; for (@Array) { $skipping++, next if $skipping and not $skipping > $num_of_skip; $skipping++, next if 2 == length; print $_, $/; $skipping = 0; }