Catman...se_text(3pm)

💖 Catmandu::Fix::parse_text 💖

okay bestie, so this is Catmandu::Fix::parse_text, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual — it's a Perl thing, 3pm, you know the vibe. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Catmandu::Fix::parse_text — it parses a text into an array or hash of values ✨ literally that's the whole job and it ate 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so picture this: you've got a string and you want it un-strung into lil pieces. that's the whole thing. watch 👑

# date: "2015-03-07"
parse_text(date, '(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)')
# date:
#    - 2015
#    - 03
#    - 07

see how it gave you an array?? one capture group per slot, in order, no notes. 🎀

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and now the named version, because we love a girl who labels her things:

# date: "2015-03-07"
parse_text(date, '(?<year>\d\d\d\d)-(?<month>\d\d)-(?<day>\d\d)')
# date:
#   year: "2015"
#   month: "03"
#   day: "07"

boom. hash. the names you gave in the pattern are the keys, the matched bits are the values. iconic behaviour fr fr 💖

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and now the part where nothing matches, and honestly? it just does not care:

# date: "abcd"
parse_text(date, '(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)')
# date: "abcd"

vibe check failed → the value just stays exactly as it was. no array, no hash, no drama, no cap. 😭 it's giving "we move on" 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Catmandu::Fix — the mothership, go say hi 👑
• Catmandu::Importer::Text — the other text-y bestie, iykyk 🍓

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mwah 💜 that's the whole page. this was served up by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24, brought to you by the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. stay parsing, bestie 🫶✨