Re^2: Why is print output different for function returning an array versus printing an array variable?

michael@x054:[/data/prj/labserv/perftools/perl]cat *2.pl
@coins = ("Quarter","Dime","Nickel");
print "@coins";
print "\n\r";
print sort(@coins);
print "\n\r";

michael@x054:[/data/prj/labserv/perftools/perl]perl *2.pl
Quarter Dime Nickel
DimeNickelQuarter
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Confused again. I seem to getting the opposite of what you said should happen. "@coins" is separated while sort(@coins) is not.

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Re^3: Why is print output different for function returning an array versus printing an array variable? by aixtools (Novice) on Nov 06, 2014 at 14:07 UTC
I added one print statement - and now I understand the very literal impact of having an array in/not-in a string context. `@coins = ("Quarter","Dime","Nickel"); print "@coins"; print "\n\r"; print @coins; print "\n\r"; print sort(@coins); print "\n\r"; Quarter Dime Nickel QuarterDimeNickel DimeNickelQuarter` [download] Again, thanks!!	[reply] [d/l]