On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:44:43AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
This change adds the ability to group entries in a string list with
single
quotes. So the string:
"'foo bar'"
becomes 1 token rather than 2. Consequently single quotes must now be escaped:
"\'"
resolves to a literal single quote.
Incidentally, this change also alters another, probably unintentional behaviour
of the previous implementation, in that tokens are separated by any amount of
whitespace rather than a single whitespace character. I.e.:
"a b"
resolves to:
'a' 'b'
rather than:
'a' '' 'b'
That last syntax can be used if an empty argument is still desired. Whitespace
is now also defined to include tabs.
parse_string_list can also now fail if it contains an unmatched open quote.
ACK.
Rich.
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