in reply to String to tokens

You want to use the split() function. It's aptly named. It takes a pattern to split a string on, and the string to split. @chunks = split /\s+/, "thing with spaces in it"; If you don't know regexes yet, you'll probably want to study up on them.

You could also use a special case of this function (as explained in its documentation): @chunks = split ' ', $string_to_split; Please read the docs for more information.

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