#!/usr/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', 'These fish are tasty', 'When you reach 900 years, you will not look as good', 'I can help you', 'You see the future', 'The future is always in motion', 'There is no try', 'You have found someone, hmmm', 'It can save you', 'Master Obi-Wan has lost a planet', 'It is difficult to see' ); foreach (@sentences) { my $speak=yoda($_); $speak =~ s/ i / I /g; print "$speak\n"; } sub yoda { my ($sentence) = @_; my $Pivot=join '|', qw/is be will show do try are teach have look help see can learn has/; # Move along, nothing to see here return $sentence unless ($sentence=~/\b$Pivot\b/); # Rearrange our words $sentence="$' $`$&"; # Clear leading spaces and Capitalise $sentence =~ s/^\s+//; $sentence = ucfirst(lc($sentence)); }