Dear Perl Monks!
I have the following problem to solve in perl.
Got an array in which there are strings (words), for example
@array = ("deemon", "jeez", "steer", "caaaaar", "bbbbb", "bbbbbbbbbbb");

I have to replace every character that occurs more than one and their occurences are even with XY and write out the result.

deemon => dXYmon
jeez => JXYz
steer => stXYr
caaaaar => cXYXYar
bbbbb => XYXYb
bbbbbbbbbb => XYXYXYXYXYb


Tried this code:

foreach(@array) {
    $_ =~ s/(\w+)\1+/01$1$2/g;
    print "$_ ";
}
it works for a few, but it doesn't for bbbbbbbbbbbb.
What could be a real solution (using substitution/translation if possible)?

Thanks
stringZ

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