Re: extending <% | %>

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:21:24PM -0800, BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret wrote:
> Ah.  Now I see the dilemma.  I was stuck on vertical bars on the LHS of 
> the pipe.  It's not a huge problem if you only have to account for pipes 
> on the LHS, but if you allow arbitrary perl (including vertical bars) on 
> the RHS then parsing can become a lot more difficult.
> 
> If you only have to account for '| foo(<arbitrary perl>)' then you might 
> be able to get some help from Text::Balanced.  Allowing for '| 
> foo(<arbitrary perl>) | bar(<arbitrary perl>)' would be more difficult 
> but doable.  (Not that you implied it but if you have to allow '| 
> <arbitrary perl>' I think you're going to be SOL.)

I had thought of Text::Balanced and ended up discarding it; I think this was
because I hadn't considered disallowing '|' in filter arguments, or something.
Either that or there was some problem with using it because I had to start at
the end of the string (I know, reverse).  I can't remember.

If I have time this weekend I'll look at it again.

hdp.

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