Hi all. I have a long list of values which I want to put into an array, but some of those values have spaces in them.

It would be easiest, I feel, if I could just use qw//, but I can't figure out how to get around the splitting on whitespace.

Right now, my best solution that I can think of would be to use something in place of whitespace, and do a regex on the array later: 

my @array = ( qw/one two three four_and_a_half/ );
s/_/ /g for( @array );

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But this could get rather cumbersome for large arrays, and at some point in the future, I might need to use whatever character I pick within an element of the array. (Well, okay, I can pick something weird like \007, but ya never know.)

Is there another way to do this?

elbieelbieelbie

In reply to Escaping white space with qw// by elbie

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