NAME
Env::ShellWords - Environment variables for arguments as array
VERSION
version 0.02
SYNOPSIS
# Tie Interface
use Env::ShellWords;
tie my @CFLAGS, 'Env::ShellWords', 'CFLAGS';
tie my @LDFLAGS, 'Env::ShellWords', 'LDFLAGS';
# same thing with import interface:
use Env::ShellWords qw( @CFLAGS @LDFLAGS );
# usage:
$ENV{CFLAGS} = '-DBAR=1';
unshift @CFLAGS, '-I/foo/include';
push @CFLAGS, '-DFOO=Define With Spaces';
# now:
# $ENV{CFLAGS} = '-I/foo/include -DBAR=1 -DFOO=Define\\ With\\ Spaces';
unshift @LDFLAGS, '-L/foo/lib';
push @LDFLAGS, '-lfoo';
DESCRIPTION
This module provides an array like interface to environment variables
that contain flags. For example Autoconf can uses the environment
variables like CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, and this allows you to manipulate
those variables without doing space quoting and other messy mucky
stuff.
The intent is to use this from alienfile to deal with hierarchical
prerequisites.
You can provide split and join callbacks when you tie:
use Env::ShellWords;
# split on any space, ignore quotes
tie my @FOO, 'Env::ShellWords',
sub { split /\s+/, $_[0] },
sub { join ' ', @_ };
Which may be useful if you have to split on words on an operating
system with a different specification.
CAVEATS
Not especially fast. undef gets mapped to the empty string '' since
undef doesn't have a meaning as an argument in a string.
Writing to an environment variable using this interface is inherently
lossy.
SEE ALSO
Env
AUTHOR
Graham Ollis <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
