Oh Text::ParseWords is pretty cool, thanks for sharing. :)

(So many core modules which need more attention)

> It has the advantage of being a core module.

Indeed.

C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>corelist Text::ParseWords

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Text::ParseWords was first released with perl 5
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Tho it's exporting a lot on default

our @EXPORT = qw(shellwords quotewords nested_quotewords parse_line);

And you can tell the documentation is old, could have more examples.