Hello Halbird,
follow the wise advices from other monks, first of all on 'how ask a question'..

To strictly stick with with your question, as you present as a newbie, i like to address you to the basic concepts: qw is a Quote like Operator. 
qw/STRING/

Evaluates to a list of the words extracted out of STRING, using embedd
+ed whitespace as the word delimiters. It can be understood as being r
+oughly equivalent to:

       split(" ", q/STRING/);

the differences being that it generates a real list at compile time, a
+nd in scalar context it returns the last element in the list. So this
+ expression:

    qw(foo bar baz)
is semantically equivalent to the list:

    "foo", "bar", "baz"

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So qw is used (mostly) in list context to return a list, and yes you can assign a list to an array. Crucial concepts are: list and context. Basicly a list is an UNordered sequence of values. A list is like a primitive idea in Perl. Lists cannot be accessed using an index. Array are indexed lists so you can access one element by the mean of its index. Look for context at modernperl and obviously at perlmonks.

HtH
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In reply to Re: (Beginner) Can 'qw' be implemented into a list? by Discipulus
in thread (Beginner) Can 'qw' be implemented into a list? by Halbird

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