It's a shortcut for assigning words to an array. That statement would return
an array that looks roughly like this:
('"stuff",', '"more stuff",', '"even more stuff"') # Note the double quotes.
Something like ("stuff","more stuff","even more stuff"); # was likely
intended, without qw().
Search for 'qw/STRING/' in perlop perldoc for more information.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole Bialczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qw
i'm trying to work my way throuh an existing script and it says
@array = qw("stuff", "more stuff", "even more stuff");
what does the qw do?
thanks, nichole
