perlquestion perlnoobster Hi perl monks, I was wondering if someone could help me with the following, i have the following string as an example: Apple iPhone 4 Black Cover (keeping in mind I have various different strings) Is it possible to retain the first 4 characters for each word? separated by a hyphen i.e to display the following: Appl-iPho-4-Blac-Cove Please can someone help me? Thank you :)