Re: quotewords doesn't return a list

[snax]

It does here. Update: No, it doesn't. My mistake; I completely missed seeing the single and double quotes at the end of the input data (props to Enlil). Sorry :(

Suggestions:

Check to see if you are opening the file properly: use the or die "Useful message here: $?" idiom

Your chunk above doesn't print anything or do anything with @list -- is it just a case of not really looking at your variables?

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Adding a print statment or using the debugger shows that @list is empty.
If I add $master = "1    2    3    4    foo  bar    7    8    9"; to the program then it returns a list as expected. The problem appears to be tied to getting the data from a file.
I am running Activestate perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

[snax]

How odd. Using a file (master.txt as you suggest) and the offered input data (tab separated)

1 2 3 4 foo bar 7 8 9

I have no problems: I get a list as expected. However, after adding a single and double quote

1 2 3 4 foo bar 7 8 9 ' "

things behave as you describe: an empty list results. As such I concluded that Enlil got it right, and there's a bug/behavior problem associated with unmatched quotes in the Text::ParseWords module.

I'm testing this with 5.8.0 (Cygwin) and 5.6.1 (Activestate).