I can understand the challenge to hack it by yourself ... :)

But I think the suggested Text::ParseWords is core and offers everything I expect from parsing a command line.

It has also tests, is cutomizable and the source is well structured and documented.

So if I "wanna roll my own" and need to make special adjustments (like e.g. paired {quotes} ) I can take the code as a base. 


  DB<94> use Text::ParseWords qw/shellwords/

  DB<96> x shellwords(q{this is 'an example' "with different quoting a
+nd \" escaping" including\ escaped\ whitespace})
0  'this'
1  'is'
2  'an example'
3  'with different quoting and " escaping'
4  'including escaped whitespace'
  DB<97>

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In case larger files need to be parsed I'll consider a dependency to Text::CSV , but this really looks good.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: Parsing a line of text items by LanX
in thread Parsing a line of text items by mikkoi

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