in reply to Skipping Elements in an Array

You could do this:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @Array = ('AAA','BB','CCCC','DD','EEEEE','FFF','GGGG'); my $num_of_skip =2; for (my $i; $i <= $#Array; $i++) { if (length $Array[$i] == $num_of_skip) { $i=$i+2; } else { print "$Array[$i]\n"; } }