Re^2: help! Please please help!

I should point out that one may not embed comments in a qw(), as your example might tend to suggest. Doing so (with warnings enabled) will cause the "Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list" warning to be issued.

Actually, you can, but I don't think the results will be what you expected.

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Re^3: help! Please please help! by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 14, 2008 at 14:15 UTC
That's one of the reasons why when I start getting a qw// that's spanning more than 2-ish lines I've taken to changing to using YAML::Syck in a here-doc sort of like this: `use YAML::Syck qw( Load ); my @servers = @{ Load( <<'EOT' ) }; ## Now I can have comments - 213.123.20.134 - 213.123.20.119 - 213.123.20.120 - 213.123.20.121 EOT` [download] If the list grows even longer you can easily move it after your `__END__` token and change to `my $server_data = do { local $/; <DATA> }; my @servers = @{ Load( $server_data ) };`; and it's not a big step from there to swap to a separate data file and use `LoadFile` instead. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: help! Please please help! by amarquis (Curate) on Mar 14, 2008 at 14:32 UTC
Thanks for the correction, I'm sure it will save me some bug hunting someday :). I've never put a comment inside a qw() before and had never really thought about it before.	[reply]