On Thu, 29 May 2014 16:02:44 -0700 Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 29, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Sherman Willden wrote: > > > Maybe I'm missing the point but isn't the following code the > > problem's answer? Please let me know if I am off base. > > Just a bit off (see below). > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > my @test = "a b c"; > > That is a scalar on the right-hand side. You end up with a > one-element array in which the first and only element is the string > 'a b c'. Shawn and I were using the qw() operator, which splits a > string on whitespace and returns a list: > > my @test = qw(a b c); > > which is equivalent to and shorter than: > > my @test = ( 'a', 'b', 'c'); > > > See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
