Re: Module suggestions for parsing query words (ala google)?

[BrowserUk]

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" }

Or just:

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

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

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

Do you need more sophistication than that?

[pffan239]

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.

[BrowserUk]

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" })

[pffan239]

Wow!

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