#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT use strict; my($putNum,$line,$s_count,$num,$n_line, @square); $putNum = 1; @square = ( '+----+', '|....|', '|....|', '|....|', '+----+' ); foreach $line (@square) { if (!$putNum) { $line =~ s/\./ /g; } else { if ($line =~ /\./) { $s_count = $line =~ s/\./\./g; $num++ if ($s_count); $n_line = "$num" . ' ' x ($s_count - length($num)); $line =~ s/\.+/$n_line/o; } } print "$line\n"; } # OUTPUT +----+ |1 | |2 | |3 | +----+