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NAME

qn - Perl extension for quoting and splitting on newlines.

SYNOPSIS

use qn;

@a = qn <<END;
    word
    word with spaces
    another word
END

@b = qn '
    element one
    element two
';

@c = qn "
    item: $one
    item: $two
";

DESCRIPTION

Quoting similar to qw//. Instead of splitting on whitespace though, qn splits on newlines allowing each element to include whitespace.

Leading and trailing whitespace is stripped from each element, but whitespace within is left intact.

CAVEATS

  • Won't work with delimiters such as ()'s, {}'s, or //'s.

  • End tag must be fully outdented in here-doc usage. But that's a Perl thing, right?

EXPORT

qn()

SEE ALSO

qw in perlfunc.

AUTHOR

Rick Myers, <jrm@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Rick Myers.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.