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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to process a string as an array to validate data and I don't have a perl book handy to point me in the right direction?
How do I look at a string byte for byte?

$mystrng = 'smith and jones';
?? #-- please help me here