Perl: array, assigning multi-word sentences with quotes
Just wondering if there's a better way to get these complete sentences into an array and keep the quotes intact? All the quotes make it look ugly to me but it works. I want to be able to refer to the full sentences by index. I've tried a few qw and qq/ aproaches but what I have below seems about the only way I can get it to work. Most examples I've seen with assigning in to arrays only show single words. I was thinking about using something with split but seems more trouble than it's worth. This isn't critical just trying to learn.
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Hi.
This is another technique:
Producing:
All the strings are placed into a scalar, with the separator being a newline, then the scalar is split into the array.
Because there is some processing, you could also place quotes around the strings later, saving some keystrokes on entry. However, then you would lose the flexibility of placing any characters of your choice around the strings -- I used both single and double quotes above, for example.
It is convenient if your sentences are short. If you had long sequences, you'd need to invent a continuation character to allow lines to be joined ... cheers, drl
Thanks for the replies. It's educational to see the different approaches used. What's interesting to me is that when I use this approach I get the newline as index 0. How would I get rid of that? I tried delete $a[0], chomp, and finally chop.
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