#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; while () { chomp($_); print_str($_); } sub print_str { my ($str) = @_; print substr(lc($str), 1), "\n"; print lc(substr($str, 1)), "\n\n"; } __DATA__ /A/a/B /A/a/b /A/a/b/a /A/a/b /A/a /A/b /A