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-rw-r--r--lib/include/util.h18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/include/util.h b/lib/include/util.h
index c13b942..d824b22 100644
--- a/lib/include/util.h
+++ b/lib/include/util.h
@@ -100,13 +100,25 @@ int rdline(rdline_t *t);
int unescape(char *src);
/*
+ Replace spaces in 'str' with null bytes. Tread strings (started and
+ terminated with double-quotes which can be escaped) as a single block.
+ Such strings are run through unescap(). All elements are tightly
+ packed together and the function returns the number of consecutive
+ argument strings that are now inside 'str'.
+
+ Returns a negative value if unescape() fails, a string is not
+ termianted or two such strings touch each other without a white
+ space in between.
+*/
+int pack_argv(char *str);
+
+/*
Split a space seperated string into a sequence of null-terminated
strings. Return a NULL terminated array of strings pointing to the
start of each sub string.
- If a double quote is encountered, the entire string up to to the next,
- unescaped double quite is interpreted as a single sub string and
- fed through the unescape function.
+ It basically runs pack_argv on 'str' and then constructs the argv
+ vector from that, with each entry pointing into 'str'.
The returned array must be freed with free().
*/