in reply to String to tokens

  1. Don't call your sub 'x'. That's the name of a perl operator.
  2. You can use magical split to divide your text on whitespace: 
    sub words {
    split " ", $_[0];
}

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    That works by splitting the first argument given to the sub. In a more complex sub, I would have shifted the first argument into a temporary variable.

    3. After Compline,
    Zaxo

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