Are you sure @array is holding nothing but a string? If so why are you using an array? 

my $str = "P H A G E P H A G E P Q K R E P H A G E P W S Q E P H A G E
+ P R D L E P H A G E";

$str =~ s/\s+//g;
my @words = $str =~ /.{1,5}/g;

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Or do you mean: 

my @array = ('P', 'H', 'A', 'G', 'E', 
             'P', 'H', 'A', 'G', 'E',
             'P', 'Q', 'K', 'R', 'E',
             'P', 'H', 'A', 'G', 'E',
             'P', 'W', 'S', 'Q', 'E',
             'P', 'H', 'A', 'G', 'E',
             'P', 'R', 'D', 'L', 'E',
             'P', 'H', 'A', 'G', 'E');

my @words;
while (@array) {
   push(@words, join('', splice(@array, 0, 5)));
}

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Then, for the second part, 

foreach (@words) {
   next unless $_ eq 'PHAGE';
   print("$_\n");
}

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In reply to Re: a clearer query for how do i splice an array by ikegami
in thread how to splice an array? by heidi

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