Reference: quotewords
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:53:09Z

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| Chapter 8 Standard Modules |

## quotewords

    quotewords (delim, keep, lines)

Accepts delimiter and list of lines and breaks the lines up at occurrences of the delimiter into a list of words. Exported by default. Takes the following arguments:

delim

  Delimiter, which can be a regular expression. Occurrences inside quotes are ignored.

keep

  Boolean. If false, quotes and single backslashes are removed from the list of words returned, and a double backslash is returned as a single backslash. If true, quotes and backslashes are retained.

lines

  The list of lines to be parsed.

8.144 Text::ParseWords |  | Reference: old_shellwords