in reply to Module suggestions for parsing query words (ala google)?

Ostensibly, your "parser" could be as simple as: 

$input = "name: jones location: ny";;

%query = map{ split ':\s+' } $input =~ m[(\S+:\s+\S+)]g;;

pp \%query;;
{ location => "ny", name => "jones" }

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Or just:

$input = "name: jones location: ny";;

%query = $input =~ m[(\S+):\s+(\S+)]g;;

pp \%query;;
{ location => "ny", name => "jones" }

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Do you need more sophistication than that?

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Re^2: Module suggestions for parsing query words (ala google)?
by pffan239 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2010 at 12:24 UTC

    Thanks for your reply!

    That definitely a good start. at first, I didn't think that regex's would good enough.

    I didn't have it in my original post, but I had in mind that the query terms could be multiple words. ie:

    name: mike jones location: ny

    or perhaps, more explicitly:

    name: "mike jones" location: ny

    regardless, my regex fu should be good enough to get that figured out.

    I'll give this approach a shot and see how far I get.

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[d/l]
[select]

      Something like: 

      @inputs = (
    "name: mike jones location: ny", 
    'name: "mike jones" location: ny', 
    "name: jones location: ny" 
);;

$re = qr[ (?: (\S+): \s* ) ["']? (.+?) ["']? (?=\s+\S+:|$) ]x;;

%h = m[$re]g and pp $_, \%h for @inputs;;

("name: mike jones location: ny", { location => "ny", name => "mike jo
+nes" })

("name: \"mike jones\" location: ny", { location => "ny", name => "mik
+e jones" })

("name: jones location: ny", { location => "ny", name => "jones" })

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      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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[d/l]

        Wow!

        Above and beyond the call of duty. This is a tremendous help! Much appreciated.

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