utility/NaiveTokenizer.h

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#pragma once

class NaiveTokenizer {
public:
    /** tokenize a space-separated string, handling quotes
     *
     * The input is tokenized, using " " (space) as the tokenizer; multiple
     * spaces are regarded as a single separator.  If the input begins with a
     * quote (either single (') or double (")), the next token will be all the
     * characters (including spaces) until the next identical quote.
     * Warning: This function modifies its argument in-place !
     *
     * It aims at reproducing the parsing of a shell.
     *
     * @param[inout] line The string to be tokenized. Warning: modified in-place
     * @return Pointer to the next token (which is actually the original value of 'line'
     */
    static char* getNextToken(char** line);
};