056: my (@words, $char, $vowel); 057: while (<$IN>) { 058: @words = split /[\W]/, ; 059: for my $word(@words) { ## explicit variable declared... 060: print $OUT (encode ('UTF-8', $word)) . "\n"; ## and put to further use... 061: my $count = 0; 061a-061z: ## hypothetical insert, tweak, extension, etc 062: my $end = length($word); ## Ahah, easy to verify that ## we're getting word length 063: for (my $i = 0; $i < $end; $i++) { 064: $char = substr($word, $i, 1); ## and again....