Re: [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:29:46AM -0500, Ren Maddox wrote:
> The documentation of qw// states that a list is created.  It needs
> to be reworded in terms of context.  Here's one attempt:



>        qw/STRING/
> 
>                Evaluates to a sequence of comma-separated,
>                single-quoted sub-strings extracted out of STRING,
>                using embedded whitespace as the delimiters.

I'm with Ronald.  The original description was better.


>                In list context, it can be understood as being roughly
>                equivalent to:
> 
>                    split(' ', q/STRING/, -1);
> 
>                the difference being that it happens at compile time.
>
>                In scalar context, it evaluates to the final sub-string
>                of the sequence.

That's actually what a list does in scalar context (as opposed to an
array, which returns it's number of elements.)  Commonly confused.
The clarification is good, especially since split() doesn't behave
that way.


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• [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created by Ren Maddox
• Re: [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created by Michael G Schwern
• Re: [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created by Ren Maddox
• Re: [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created by Michael G Schwern
• Re: [ID 20010827.004] qw// documentation says a list is created by Ronald J Kimball