Text::ParseWords(3P)erl

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       Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens

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         use Text::ParseWords;
         @words = "ewords($delim, $keep, @lines);
         @words = &shellwords(@lines);
         @words = &old_shellwords(@lines);

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       &quotewords() accepts a delimiter (which can be a regular
       expression) and a list of lines and then breaks those
       lines up into a list of words ignoring delimiters that
       appear inside quotes.

       The $keep argument is a boolean flag.  If true, the quotes
       are kept with each word, otherwise quotes are stripped in
       the splitting process.  $keep also defines whether
       unprotected backslashes are retained.

       A &shellwords() replacement is included to demonstrate the
       new package.  This version differs from the original in
       that it will _NOT_ default to using $_ if no arguments are
       given.  I personally find the old behavior to be a mis-
       feature.

       &quotewords() works by simply jamming all of @lines into a
       single string in $_ and then pulling off words a bit at a
       time until $_ is exhausted.

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       Hal Pomeranz pomeranz@netcom.com, 23 March 1994

       Basically an update and generalization of the old
       shellwords.pl.  Much code shamelessly stolen from the old
       version (author unknown).