use warnings FATAL => 'all' ; use strict; use Data::Dump; use constant DEBUG => 0; use constant { DBPR_DD_1 => 1 && DEBUG, }; my $random = 'randam'; my %r_count; $r_count{$_}++ for split '', $random; dd \%r_count if DBPR_DD_1; for my $word (qw(a mad ran madnar madam ranx xxxxxx x)) { my %u_count = %r_count; my $ok = scrabblicious($word, %u_count); my $len = 2 + length $random; printf qq{%*s %sproperly formed from '$random' \n}, $len, qq{'$word'}, $ok ? ' ' : 'im'; } sub scrabblicious { my ($word, %u_count) = @_; for my $c (split '', $word) { return if --$u_count{$c} < 0; } return 1; } #### 'a' properly formed from 'randam' 'mad' properly formed from 'randam' 'ran' properly formed from 'randam' 'madnar' properly formed from 'randam' 'madam' improperly formed from 'randam' 'ranx' improperly formed from 'randam' 'xxxxxx' improperly formed from 'randam' 'x' improperly formed from 'randam'