Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
Actually, I'm still reluctant in considering mal"formed" a good argument
since it is not consistent with command line arguments, where " must be
escaped...
can we discuss a little bit on this?
Yes, of course. Actually my concern is how to avoid enclosing quotes as many
place as possible. You know our customers were a little bit frustrated when
they found that thay had to give their registration keys and usernames in
qoutes. (It sounds a silly but actually they are *the* customers who pays for
this stufff.)
Anyway, why must those string be quoted? Because they contain spaces and/or
single quote (apostrphe) in names generally. Let's have a look at the source we
have:
@@ -702,9 +720,11 @@
}
}
else
- { /* read up the remaining part up to a delimiter */
- next_token = strcspn (farg, " \t\r\n#\'\"");
First we may omit '\t' and ' ' (space) here to allow "multi word" options. And
we need special care about '\'' to suffice my needs. Am I right?
So I'll probably come up with a new patch soon which accepts these lines but
does not break the compatibility much with older versions.
I was only concerned about the behavior of "
probably
foo"
should be considered an error just like
"foo
shouldn't it?
However, are you saying that we can still use " to enclose multi word
arguments, and let these words contain ' without escaping?
cheers
Lorenzo
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