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Escaping white space with qw//by elbie (Curate) |
on Aug 10, 2001 at 21:52 UTC ( [id://103970]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
elbie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi all. I have a long list of values which I want to put
into an array, but some of those values have spaces in them.
It would be easiest, I feel, if I could just use qw//, but I can't figure out how to get around the splitting on whitespace. Right now, my best solution that I can think of would be to use something in place of whitespace, and do a regex on the array later:
But this could get rather cumbersome for large arrays, and at some point in the future, I might need to use whatever character I pick within an element of the array. (Well, okay, I can pick something weird like \007, but ya never know.) Is there another way to do this? elbieelbieelbie
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