my $string="these are the times that try men's souls";
my @words = split /\s/, $string;
# @words now holds "these", "are", "the" ... etc.

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perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'