Quotes in Hashes of Array

bichonfrise74 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a simple quote problem and just couldn't find the solution. Currently, I have this line which is fine but I want to put quotes so that if ever I want to add new elements, I don't need to put the quotes anymore.

my %list = ( 'test' => [ 'aa', 'bb' ]) );
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What I'm hoping is something like this which doesn't work.

my %list = ( 'test' => q([ aa bb ]) );  
my %list = ( 'test' => q[ aa bb ] );
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Any ideas? I'm sure it is simple, I just couldn't figure it out.

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Re: Quotes in Hashes of Array by toolic (Bishop) on Jul 16, 2009 at 00:20 UTC
I think you are looking for qw: `my %list = ( 'test' => [ qw(aa bb) ] );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Quotes in Hashes of Array by LanX (Saint) on Jul 16, 2009 at 00:29 UTC
ehm I'm not sure, but do you mean this? `DB<1> %list = ( test => [ qw#aa bb# ] ) DB<2> p $list{test}[0] aa DB<3> x %list 0 'test' 1 ARRAY(0x86fe158) 0 'aa' 1 'bb'` [download] Cheers Rolf UPDATE: It really sucks that the perldebugger can't handle lexicals... ... seems that every line is evaled seperately such that the scope ends with the line. ... took me a wile to understand why `DB<1> my %list = ( test => [ qw#aa bb# ] )` [download] has no effect!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Quotes in Hashes of Array by bichonfrise74 (Vicar) on Jul 16, 2009 at 00:31 UTC
Yup! That's it!! Thanks!	[reply]