A different way of approaching the problem - use a hash to store the order of the words and the words themselves. This makes it easy to delete or add words in the order that you want. This makes use of a property of delete() that I didn't realize existed - it returns the value of the hash element that it deletes. 

my $string = "This is a only a test";
my %words; 
my $i = 1;

# Assign the order of the words as a key, the word itself as 
# a value
$words{$i++} = $_ foreach(split(' ', $string));

# Delete the word that you want to delete
my $deleted_word = delete($words{3});

# Put the word back in
$words{3} = $deleted_word;

# Join the values back together based on the order of 
# the keys
$string = join(" ", map { $_ = $words{$_} } sort keys %words);
print $string . "\n";

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In reply to Re: Needing to take out 3rd word of sting by Rich36
in thread Needing to take out 3rd word of sting by mr_evans2u

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