[ABE.pm] A little programming help

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2007-09-05T11:01:39]
> Here are two attemtps to do the same thing, but I'm stuck on both.
> 
> Objective: parse the string
> 
>     q( my @prereqs = ("forddaily", "processdailydata"); )

Isn't there some way you can NOT have to parse Perl code?

Do you always trust that the incoming string is NOT malicious?

I would NOT screw around here.  Do one of two things:

  (a) if you trust the code, use eval $string and Data::Dumper
  (b) if you do not, use PPI

Alternately, define a very specific grammar that the code must match.  Then a
regex will be easy.

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rjbs