foreach my $word(@four) {print"\n $word: "; my $length=length($word); print"\n Length of the word= $length\n\n"; } # there #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $sentence="BEARCALFDEERFEARGEARHEAR"; print Dumper (split /(.{4})/,$sentence); __END__ $VAR1 = ''; $VAR2 = 'BEAR'; $VAR3 = ''; $VAR4 = 'CALF'; $VAR5 = ''; $VAR6 = 'DEER'; $VAR7 = ''; $VAR8 = 'FEAR'; $VAR9 = ''; $VAR10 = 'GEAR'; $VAR11 = ''; $VAR12 = 'HEAR';