On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:08:53AM -0400, Mike Simons wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:22:17PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > when using a quoting operator like qw and friends, how does one one
> > quote a string with spaces?
>
> You don't.
>
> > foreach my $county (qw/Amador Calaveras 'El Dorado' Humboldt Lake Tehama
> > Trinity/)
>
> You could do something similar to this:
> ===
> foreach (split ",",
> 'Amador,Calaveras,El Dorado,Humboldt,Lake Tehama,Trinity') {
> print "$_\n";
> }
Also possible:
foreach my $county ('Amador', 'Calaveras', 'El Dorado', ...) {
<perform actions>
}
but that does not avoid quotes and commas, the point of the qw// operator.
Escaping the pace using \ does not work, either :-(.
At the risk of being annoying, I will mention that the analogous operator in
Ruby does support just that.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
%w[Amador Calaveras El\ Dorado].each do |i|
puts i
end
iterates over three array elements as expected, not four.
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