NAME

Parse::CommandLine::Regexp - Parsing string like command line

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of Parse::CommandLine::Regexp (from Perl distribution Parse-CommandLine-Regexp), released on 2020-04-09.

DESCRIPTION

This module is an alternative to Parse::CommandLine, using regexp instead of per-character parsing technique employed by Parse::CommandLine, and which might offer better performance in Perl (see benchmarks in Bencher::Scenario::CmdLineParsingModules).

"parse_command_line", the main routine, basically split a string into "words", with whitespaces as delimiters while also taking into account quoting using " (double-quote character) and ' (single-quote character) as well as escaping using \ (backslash character). This splitting is similar to, albeit simpler than, what a shell like bash does to its command-line string.

FUNCTIONS

parse_command_line

Usage:

 my @words = parse_command_line($str);

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Parse-CommandLine-Regexp.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Parse-CommandLine-Regexp.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Parse-CommandLine-Regexp

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Parse::CommandLine

Text::ParseWords's shellwords(). This module also allows you to specify which quoting characters to use.

parse_cmdline in Complete::Bash, which uses similar technique as this module, but also takes into account non-whitespace word-breaking character such as |.

Text::CSV and friends.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.