Sagar, I have changed the requirement slightly, basically the colours below: 
baby blue
baby pink
black
dark blue
brown
dark purple
green
orange
hot pink
light purple
red
white
yellow

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If the space between them exists then how do i retain just the first letter of the words e.g hot pink would be hp and light purple would be lp? I can't figure out how to do it with the split and join if there is no space between two words then simply retain the colour i.e. red would be red Thank you :)

In reply to Re^4: Retain first 4 characters of a string by perlnoobster
in thread Retain first 4 characters of a string by perlnoobster

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