Re: quotewords doesn't return a list

It does here. Update: No, it doesn't. My mistake; I completely missed seeing the single and double quotes at the end of the input data (props to Enlil). Sorry :(

Suggestions:

Check to see if you are opening the file properly: use the or die "Useful message here: $?" idiom

Your chunk above doesn't print anything or do anything with @list -- is it just a case of not really looking at your variables?

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Re: Re: quotewords doesn't return a list by zemplen (Novice) on Oct 10, 2003 at 19:12 UTC
Adding a print statment or using the debugger shows that @list is empty. If I add `$master = "1 2 3 4 foo bar 7 8 9";` to the program then it returns a list as expected. The problem appears to be tied to getting the data from a file. I am running Activestate perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: quotewords doesn't return a list by snax (Hermit) on Oct 10, 2003 at 19:58 UTC
How odd. Using a file (master.txt as you suggest) and the offered input data (tab separated) `1 2 3 4 foo bar 7 8 9` [download] I have no problems: I get a list as expected. However, after adding a single and double quote `1 2 3 4 foo bar 7 8 9 ' "` [download] things behave as you describe: an empty list results. As such I concluded that Enlil got it right, and there's a bug/behavior problem associated with unmatched quotes in the `Text::ParseWords` module. I'm testing this with 5.8.0 (Cygwin) and 5.6.1 (Activestate).	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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