Esteemed Monks,

I've searched cpan, super searched and googled, and I'm sure I've overlooked something. Therefore this little question.

My $firm has a web application, where we would like to take google-like search strings and process these for insertion into sql-statements. Example:

PersonId < 3 and OrganisationId = 4

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This search string will then be translated into some data-structure that can be transmitted to our sql-generation functions. There are probably a million ways to solve this with regular expressions, Parse::RecDescent and whatnot. Safety-issues (sql-insertion, for example) makes this a delicate issue, though.

Does anyone know of a module that implements this? I am almost certain that this is a wheel that does not need to be reinvented, I'm just unable to find it at the moment. Thank you for listening.

pernod
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In reply to How can i parse google-like search strings? by pernod

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