Yep,caught that myself a few minutes -after- sending email. Apologies. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 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.