Your first one is answered by 'perldoc perlop' {earlier posts about perldoc notwithstanding... =-) } 

qw/STRING/
  Evaluates to a list of the words extracted out of STRING,
using embedded whitespace as the word delimiters. It can be 
understood as being roughly equivalent to:

   split(' ', q/STRING/);

the difference being that it generates a real list at 
compile time. So this expression:
   
   qw(foo bar baz)

is semantically equivalent to the list:

   'foo', 'bar', 'baz'

Sooo, since whitespace is the delimiter for qw, you get 'Thequickbrownfox' when you print out the array.

Try this:

foreach(@list){
   print "$_ "
}
print "\n";

Note, that this actually prints:

'The quick brown fox ' (trailing space), but it illustrates the idea. Best of luck!

-beernuts

In reply to Re: Newbie question No.2 by beernuts
in thread Newbie question No.2 by BrowserUk

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