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

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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Re^3: Module suggestions for parsing query words (ala google)?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2010 at 16:19 UTC

    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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      Wow!

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

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