Hello, I am new to the Term::ReadLine::Gnu module and am trying to implement a slightly complex application that takes a series of "commands" on the readline prompt. An example usage would be:
readline> export foo bar exportfile.txt
export being the primary command, 'foo bar' being the name of the topic to export, and exportfile.txt being the file to output the data to.

The problem I am having is that 'foo bar' is has a space in it so I can't split the scalar returned from readline() by spaces. The 'foo bar' is tab-completed, which doesn't seem to use the "foo\ bar" escape style that is used in a standard unix shell.

So how can I process 1 parameter that has spaces in it easily? Perhaps a way to get an array back from readline() instead of a scalar?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as there is very limited documentation on the Term::ReadLine::Gnu module.

Thanks,
- Nick

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