Joshua Lokken wrote: [ . . ]
While your way is much easier and works well, I wonder why my original syntax did not produce the desired result?
Your (next, below) original syntax does produce the desired result here (tested). Win32 Activestate Perl 5.61 build 633
#!perl
print "Enter 5 of your favorite foods: ";
$favorites = ( <STDIN> );
# @foodlist=split(' ', $favorites);
@foodlist=split / /, $favorites;
print "@foodlist\n";
print "$foodlist[0]\n";
print "$foodlist[1]\n";Tested, Either of those two split lines produces the same result for me. I don't know reason(s) to prefer one over the other.
(in addition to warn and strict), default behavior(s) utilized next (tested, works)
#!perl use warnings; use strict; print "Enter 5 of your favorite foods: "; $_ = ( <STDIN> ); my @foodlist = split; print @foodlist, "\n\n"; print "$foodlist[0]\n"; print "$foodlist[1]\n";
# hmm, @foodlist prints without space between each word; I not sure how to get a space put back in between each word there.
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