On May 30, Jeffrey Goff said: >It's a shortcut for assigning words to an array. That statement would return >an array that looks roughly like this: > >('"stuff",', '"more stuff",', '"even more stuff"') # Note the double quotes. Nope, no matter what you do, qw() really splits on whitespace. friday:~ $ perl -w @a = qw( "stuff", "more stuff", "even more stuff" ); Possible attempt to separate words with commas at - line 1. <-- warning for (@a) { print "<$_>\n" } __END__ <"stuff",> <"more> <stuff",> <"even> <more> <stuff"> -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ Are you a Monk? http://www.perlmonks.com/ http://forums.perlguru.com/ Perl Programmer at RiskMetrics Group, Inc. http://www.riskmetrics.com/ Acacia Fraternity, Rensselaer Chapter. Brother #734 ** I no longer need a publisher for my Perl Regex book :) **