DavidSzczesniak
12/7/2017 - 12:10 AM

Quote Word Function (arrays)

An easy shortcut to create arrays, useful when there's a lot of short strings for example.

# Original, noisy-looking array
@a = ("fred", "barney", "betty", "wilma"); 

# Same array with qw
@a = qw(fred barney betty wilma);
# can also be written as:
@a = qw(
  fred
  barney
  betty
  wilma
  );