// small test unit for mish_argv_make #include #include #include typedef struct _mish_argv_t { char * line; int ac; char * av[0]; } _mish_argv_t; /* * Duplicate 'line', split it into words, store word pointers in an array, * NULL terminate it. Also return the number of words in the array in argc. * * The returned value is made of two malloc()ed blocks. use mish_argv_free * to free the memory. * It's OK to change any of the pointers. But no not try to realloc() the * vector as it hides a structure */ static char ** mish_argv_make( const char * line, int * argc ) { const char separator = ' '; _mish_argv_t * r = calloc(1, sizeof(*r)); r->line = strdup(line); char *dup = r->line; char quote; enum { s_newarg = 0, s_startarg, s_copyquote, s_skip, s_copy }; int state = s_newarg; do { switch (state) { case s_newarg: r = realloc(r, sizeof(*r) + ((r->ac + 2) * sizeof(char*))); while (*dup == ' ' || *dup == separator) dup++; r->av[r->ac++] = dup; state = s_startarg; break; case s_startarg: if (*dup == '"' || *dup == '\'') { quote = *dup++; state = s_copyquote; } else state = s_copy; break; case s_copyquote: if (*dup == '\\') { state = s_skip; dup++; } else if (*dup == quote) { state = s_newarg; dup++; if (*dup) *dup++ = 0; } else if (*dup) dup++; break; case s_skip: dup++; state = s_copyquote; break; case s_copy: if (*dup == 0) break; if (*dup != separator) dup++; else { state = s_newarg; if (*dup) *dup++ = 0; } break; } } while (*dup); r->av[r->ac] = NULL; if (argc) *argc = r->ac; return r->av; } int main() { int argc = 0; char **argv = mish_argv_make("testing \"one escape two\" lala ", &argc); printf("argc = %d\n", argc); for (int i = 0; argv[i]; i++) printf("%2d:'%s'\n", i, argv[i]); argv = mish_argv_make("command with some \" quoted\\\"words \" should work\n", &argc); printf("argc = %d\n", argc); for (int i = 0; argv[i]; i++) printf("%2d:'%s'\n", i, argv[i]); }