#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my @sentences = ('I will teach you', 'The truth is out there', 'That is an Imperial shuttle', 'My husband is giant dork', #this is my wife's suggestion 'These fish are tasty' ); foreach (@sentences) { print yoda($_)."\n"; } sub yoda { my ($sentence) = @_; my @pivot_words = qw/is be will show do try are teach have/; # Find out if I have a pivot word and grab the one with the lowest index my $pivot = (sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1]} grep {$_->[1] > 0} map { [" $_ ",index($sentence," $_ ")] } @pivot_words)[0]; #^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ # Change to fix the problem [zdog] # pointed out - THX [zdog] # No pivot words return $sentence if (!$pivot); # Pivot the sentence $sentence = substr($sentence,$pivot->[1]+length($pivot->[0]),length($sentence)). " ". substr($sentence,0,$pivot->[1]). $pivot->[0]; # Clear leading spaces $sentence =~ s/^\s+//; # Sentence case $sentence = ucfirst(lc($sentence)); }