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Diffstat (limited to 'quote.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | quote.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -42,13 +42,27 @@ void sq_quote_buf_pretty(struct strbuf *, const char *src); void sq_quote_argv_pretty(struct strbuf *, const char **argv); void sq_append_quote_argv_pretty(struct strbuf *dst, const char **argv); -/* This unwraps what sq_quote() produces in place, but returns +/* + * This unwraps what sq_quote() produces in place, but returns * NULL if the input does not look like what sq_quote would have - * produced. + * produced (the full string must be a single quoted item). */ char *sq_dequote(char *); /* + * Like sq_dequote(), but dequote a single item, and leave "next" pointing to + * the next character. E.g., in the string: + * + * 'one' 'two' 'three' + * + * after the first call, the return value would be the unquoted string "one", + * with "next" pointing to the space between "one" and "two"). The caller is + * responsible for advancing the pointer to the start of the next item before + * calling sq_dequote_step() again. + */ +char *sq_dequote_step(char *src, char **next); + +/* * Same as the above, but can be used to unwrap many arguments in the * same string separated by space. Like sq_quote, it works in place, * modifying arg and appending pointers into it to argv. |