2 * $Id: argv.c,v 1.14 2022/04/03 22:38:16 tom Exp $
4 * argv - Reusable functions for argv-parsing.
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24 #include <dlg_internals.h>
27 * Convert a string to an argv[], returning a char** index (which must be
28 * freed by the caller). The string is modified (replacing gaps between
32 dlg_string_to_argv(char *blob
)
36 size_t length
= strlen(blob
);
40 if (dialog_state
.trace_output
) {
41 DLG_TRACE(("# dlg_string_to_argv:\n"));
42 DLG_TRACE(("# given:\n"));
43 for (n
= k
= 0; n
< length
; ++n
) {
44 if (blob
[n
] == '\n') {
45 DLG_TRACE(("#%s\t%.*s\\n\n",
47 (int) (n
- k
), blob
+ k
));
52 DLG_TRACE(("#%s\t%.*s\n",
54 (int) (n
- k
), blob
+ k
));
56 DLG_TRACE(("# result:\n"));
59 for (pass
= 0; pass
< 2; ++pass
) {
65 for (n
= 0; n
< length
; ++n
) {
66 if (quoted
&& blob
[n
] == '"') {
68 } else if (blob
[n
] == '"') {
72 result
[count
] = param
;
77 } else if (!quoted
&& isspace(UCH(blob
[n
]))) {
86 if (blob
[n
] == '\\') {
90 break; /* The string is terminated by a backslash */
91 } else if ((blob
[n1
] == '\\') ||
93 (ignore
= (blob
[n1
] == '\n'))) {
94 /* eat the backslash */
97 for (k
= n
; k
< length
; ++k
)
98 blob
[k
] = blob
[k
+ 1];
101 ++param
; /* pretend I ate it */
109 result
[count
] = param
;
125 result
= dlg_calloc(char *, count
+ 1);
126 assert_ptr(result
, "string_to_argv");
128 break; /* no tokens found */
132 #ifdef HAVE_DLG_TRACE
134 for (n
= 0; result
[n
] != 0; ++n
) {
135 DLG_TRACE(("#\targv[%d] = %s\n", (int) n
, result
[n
]));
143 * Count the entries in an argv list.
146 dlg_count_argv(char **argv
)
151 while (argv
[result
] != 0)
158 dlg_eat_argv(int *argcp
, char ***argvp
, int start
, int count
)
163 for (k
= start
; k
<= *argcp
; k
++)
164 (*argvp
)[k
] = (*argvp
)[k
+ count
];
165 (*argvp
)[*argcp
] = 0;