Perl: qw (quote words)
The tutor brings up a neat Perl utility that you often see used in discussions between programmers.
There are many articles on this site about arrays. To a newcomer, one that might be helpful is here.
The point of today’s post is that, in Perl, you can create an array as follows:
@furniture=(“table”,”couch”,”TV”,”desk”,”lamp”);
However, Perl programmers usually don’t mention it that way. They more likely write
@furniture=qw(table couch TV desk lamp);
According to Robert Pepper, qw means quote words, so it reads the words as if the quotations marks and commas were there.
qw saves a lot of effort if you’re creating arrays of strings:)
Source:
McGrath, Mike. Perl in easy steps. Southam: Computer Step, 2004.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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