Hello! I'm still trying to learn Perl in my spare time.

The following code is a simple example of a larger problem I am having. I am trying to transpose a string of characters from a horizontal scalar to a vertical string of characters.

ie) ABCDEFG to:

A

B

C

D

E etc

The code below almost gives me what I want but there is one error message that appliers with each character: Argument "character" isn't numeric in array element at C\:dir line 8. Any help on this simple problem would be nice!! 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $phrase="I like apple pie"; #### set the phrase
my @array = split(//, $phrase);### split phrase into individual charac
+hters###
foreach  my $w (@array){
    print "$array[$w]\n";
};

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Thanks in advance for your help!!

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