On May 30, Jeffrey Goff said:
>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.
Nope, no matter what you do, qw() really splits on whitespace.
friday:~ $ perl -w
@a = qw( "stuff", "more stuff", "even more stuff" );
Possible attempt to separate words with commas at - line 1. <-- warning
for (@a) { print "<$_>\n" }
__END__
<"stuff",>
<"more>
<stuff",>
<"even>
<more>
<stuff">
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