I want to have Getopt::Std parse a "command line" for me, but the "command line" is coming from STDIN. I've done a simple "split /\s+/" to @ARGV, but that doesn't account for parameters with spaces surrounded by quotes:

use Getopt::Std;
##  This works in general
$cmdline = '-a b -c d';
@ARGV = split /\s+/, $cmdline;
getopts( "a:c:" ); 

### ...but this obviously fails:
$cmdline = '-a "hello world" -b "some \"text\""';

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The quoting and escaping is typically done by the *shell*. Any ideas to turn a scalar into an array for @ARGV? Using modules is OK provided they're part of the standard Perl distro; adding modules is not an option. Google's not being helpful.

Thanks!

In reply to Scalar to @ARGV for Getopt::Std by c64whiz

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