valid use of while expression

[T Raymond]

Hello everyone:
If there is a word in $words[$n], is the following expression for while 
valid? --Teresa

    #get letters into array
    my @letters;
    my $length = 1;
 while ($words[$n])
 {
      @letters=split//;
 }

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