Well, if you add a space after MD5 ;-).

But that's not the whole thing. From the manpage: 

=item qw/STRING/

Returns a list of the words extracted out of STRING, using embedded
whitespace as the word delimiters.  It is exactly equivalent to

    split(' ', q/STRING/);

Some frequently seen examples:

    use POSIX qw( setlocale localeconv )
    @EXPORT = qw( foo bar baz );

A common mistake is to try to separate the words with comma or to put
comments into a multi-line qw-string.  For this reason the C<-w>
switch produce warnings if the STRING contains the "," or the "#"
character.

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So, there is a difference, although small.

Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: why qw() rather than () by jeroenes
in thread why qw() rather than () by arhuman

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