NAME

POE::Filter::ParseWords - A POE-based parser to parse text into an array of tokens.

VERSION

version 1.08

SYNOPSIS

use POE::Filter::ParseWords;

my $filter = POE::Filter::ParseWords->new();
my $arrayref = $filter->get( [ $line ] );

DESCRIPTION

POE::Filter::ParseWords provides a convenient way to parse text into an array of tokens. It is a wrapper for the module Text::ParseWords.

A more comprehensive demonstration of the use to which this module can be put to is in the examples/ directory of this distribution.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

Creates a new POE::Filter::ParseWords object. Takes two optional arguments:

'delim', specify a delimiter, default is '\s+';
'keep', specify whether other characters are kept or not, default is false;

METHODS

get

get_one_start

get_one

Takes an arrayref which is contains lines of text. Returns an arrayref of lists of tokenised output.

put

This is not implemented.

clone

Makes a copy of the filter, and clears the copy's buffer.

SEE ALSO

POE

Text::ParseWords

POE::Filter

POE::Filter::Line

POE::Filter::Stackable

AUTHOR

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Chris Williams.

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