Re: Newbie question No.2

Everyone has answered the why, but an easy way to get your desired result is to use join.

  my @list = qw/The quick brown fox/;
  print join(" ", @list ), "\n";
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outputs:

  The quick brown fox

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Re: Re: Newbie question No.2 by thor (Priest) on Jun 06, 2002 at 00:12 UTC
an even easier way is to set `$"=" "`, which is the "list separator" (i.e. what character to use when a list is printed inside double quotes) `$"=" "; @list = qw/The quick brown fox/; print "@list\n";` [download] thor	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Modifying List Separator by tadman (Prior) on Jun 10, 2002 at 14:00 UTC
The capital E Easier way is to join, just as yodabjorn suggested. If you go mucking about with `$"`, you're liable to break things, due to the fact that `$"` is a global variable. Since that's like changing the value of pi, which would cause bridges to fall down, and dams to burst, somewhere else in that program there may be a piece of code that expects the default behavior and it won't work properly any more. join, of course, has no such "action at a distance". If you absolutely must do this, declare your `$"` to be local: `local $" = " ";`	[reply] [d/l] [select]