transforming strings to an array of characters

[Erik Browaldh]

hi everyone!

if  I have a string, lets say
$word="perl";

I want to copy this so I have something like this:
@word_list["p","e","r","l"]

also, how do I get the length of @word_list?

thanks in advance!
Erik





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