my @array = qw(HELLO THERE FELLOW PERL MONKS);
@array = (lc "@array");
print @array;
print $array[2]."\n";
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Everything is in $array[0], as you have an array of one element that contains a string. It's better to SWIM than DWIM -- "say what I/you mean", don't hope for Perl to "do what I/you mean", and your software will have less bugs. You could make this all work with split to reseperate things, but that's evil... don't do that.

oops! Thanks for setting that straight flyingmoose. That is a direct result of me not thoroughly testing my code.