Hello again all,

I am working of a project that has me looking for palindromes. So far I have sussed out this much:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $palindrome = 'anna';
my $test = reverse $palindrome;

print "$palindrome is a palindrome. \n" if $test = $palindrome;

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I have two major challenges left.

First, as per Chargrill's point below, I think I need to delete all the white space to make sure I don't get 'A Danish custard--drat such sin, Ada's back at me.

Second, I only want to find palindromes with the lengnth of four characters or more , so 'bob' should not be printed.

Third, I need it to ignore capital letters, so 'Anna' should be printed. Is there a way to slap an 'i' on the back of this script or must I resort to a regex? Could this be combined with getting rid of white spaces?

Thanks for any pointers and your time!

-mox

In reply to Improving a palindrome script... by chinamox

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