Syntax::Feature::Ql - Turns a quoted string into a single line

version 0.001000

use syntax qw( ql );

# prints on one line
say ql{
    Do you know the feeling when you want to generate a long
    string for a message without having to concatenate or end
    up with newlines and indentation?
};

This is a syntax extension feature suitable for the syntax extension dispatcher.

It provides two new quote-like operators named ql and qql. These work in the same way as q and qq (including the ability to change the delimiters), except they put the returned string on a single line.

The following all output foo bar baz:

# simple
say ql{foo bar baz};

# multiline
say ql{
    foo
    bar
    baz
};

# different delimiters and interpolation
my $qux = q{ # <- this is a normal quote!
    bar
    baz
};
say qql!
    foo
    $qux
!;

As you can see with the last example, interpolated values are also normalized to fit on the single line.

Syntax::Feature::Ql->install( into => $target );

Installs the ql and qql operators into the $target.

• syntax

• perlop

Please report any bugs or feature requests to [email protected] or through the web interface at: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Syntax-Feature-Ql

Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek <[email protected]>

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek.

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