


TAP::Parser::UtilPerl)Programmers ReferenceTAP::Parser::Utils(3p)


NAME
       TAP::Parser::Utils - Internal TAP::Parser utilities

VERSION
       Version 3.17

SYNOPSIS
         use TAP::Parser::Utils qw( split_shell )
         my @switches = split_shell( $arg );

DESCRIPTION
       FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY!

   INTERFACE
       "split_shell"

       Shell style argument parsing. Handles backslash escaping,
       single and double quoted strings but not shell
       substitutions.

       Pass one or more strings containing shell escaped
       arguments. The return value is an array of arguments
       parsed from the input strings according to (approximate)
       shell parsing rules. It's legal to pass "undef" in which
       case an empty array will be returned. That makes it
       possible to

           my @args = split_shell( $ENV{SOME_ENV_VAR} );

       without worrying about whether the environment variable
       exists.

       This is used to split HARNESS_PERL_ARGS into individual
       switches.























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