On 2012-09-10 15:19, patspiper wrote: >> >> Your message is a very good example why the whole splitting and escaping >> approach was abandonned. Every issue was considered to be "just add >> this, >> since then it works for me now", but after multiple years of such >> changes, >> there are still corner cases left. > Separating based on unquoted spaces is the 1st step. The 2nd step is to > remove the 1st and last matching quote from each parsed parameter (even > on *nix). The 3rd step is to add each parameter using > TProcess.Parameters.Add. It is kind of a middle ground though I > definitely support your suggestion if doable. Parsing a command line is > a can of worms!
Might I make a suggestion? Why try and invent the wheel ourselves? There's a very good library named getopts that has been used by masses of programmers for years now. Maybe we could learn from that and re-implement the choices made in there? Grx HdV -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
