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It might be useful to skip blank lines (or lines that just contain comments) like the real qw():

That won't be necessary. split with a single space is a special case that splits on any number of whitespace, including newlines.

Try it for yourself:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

sub qwx {
    my ( $text ) = @_;
    $text =~ s/\s*[#].*$//mg;
    return split ' ', $text;
}

my @items = qwx"

    this

    is    # possibly

    a     # commented

    list
    # with stand-alone comments
    # and empty lines

"
;

print Dumper \@items;
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          'this',
          'is',
          'a',
          'list'
        ];

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In reply to Re^3: comments and qw by rnahi
in thread comments and qw by Tanktalus

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