Question

I want to do this in Perl:

>> "foo bar baz".scan /(\w+)/
=> [["foo"], ["bar"], ["baz"]]

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This does essentially the same thing.

my @elem = "foo bar baz" =~ /(\w+)/g

You can also set the “default scalar” variable $_.

$_ = "foo bar baz";
my @elem = /(\w+)/g;

See perldoc perlre for more information.

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If you only want to use that string as an array, you could use qw().

my @elem = qw"foo bar baz";

See perldoc perlop ​ ​( Quote and Quote-like Operators ).