Re: cmdline_file_save accepts file handler instead

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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