On Feb 19, Dennis G. Wicks said: >No, I mean if $names contains "Jesus Mary Joseph" and I do > > my @n = qw( $names ); > >I want the same results as if I had done > > my @n = qw( Jesus Mary Joseph );
There's no quoting operator that will do that for you. I'd suggest using split(). my @n = split ' ', $names; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
