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<span id="command:separate_arguments"></span><h1>separate_arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#separate-arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>Parse space-separated arguments into a semicolon-separated list.</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">separate_arguments</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">UNIX</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="n">WINDOWS</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="n">_COMMAND</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&lt;args&gt;&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Parses a unix- or windows-style command-line string &#8220;&lt;args&gt;&#8221; and
stores a semicolon-separated list of the arguments in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;var&gt;</span></code>. The
entire command line must be given in one &#8220;&lt;args&gt;&#8221; argument.</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">UNIX_COMMAND</span></code> mode separates arguments by unquoted whitespace. It
recognizes both single-quote and double-quote pairs. A backslash
escapes the next literal character (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\&quot;</span></code> is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;</span></code>); there are no special
escapes (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\n</span></code> is just <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">n</span></code>).</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">WINDOWS_COMMAND</span></code> mode parses a windows command-line using the same
syntax the runtime library uses to construct argv at startup. It
separates arguments by whitespace that is not double-quoted.
Backslashes are literal unless they precede double-quotes. See the
MSDN article <a class="reference external" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a1y7w461.aspx">Parsing C Command-Line Arguments</a> for details.</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">separate_arguments</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Convert the value of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;var&gt;</span></code> to a semi-colon separated list. All
spaces are replaced with &#8216;;&#8217;. This helps with generating command
lines.</p>
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