Following my previous question, I need to parse directive arguments, like these:
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The parameters can get a bit complicated, with any kind of whitespace between arguments as well as escaped arguments.
My objective is to get a "complex" argument list like this:
cmd "C:\Documents and Settings\..." "msg=\"hello\"" msg="hello" "msg=""hello"""
into a TStringList of:
N | Text
--+-------------------------------
0 | cmd
1 | C:\Documents and Settings\...
2 | msg="hello"
3 | msg="hello"
4 | msg="hello"
One of my questions concern how quotes are escaped. I have two examples above, argument 2 and argument 4. In the first one, escaping is done by having a slash before the quote, while the second one is done by converting double (double)quotes into a single quote, a syntax associated with pascal (I think?)
How would I go about parsing the arguments efficiently in objective pascal (Delphi)?
