From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Split string into shell words?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:04:47 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvllo2h50o.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@asado.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87broy5zjp.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de
> Given a string as in the following line:
> foo "a b" 'c d' e\ f bar
> I'd like a function that returns the following list:
> ("foo" "a b" "c d" "e f" "bar")
> That is, the string should be split into words like a shell would
> split it into words.
> I thought there must be a function in comint*.el or shell*.el
> somewhere, but couldn't find it. Probably I'm blind.
It's pretty nasty to do it right:
foo "bar $(baz "toto") titi"
should turn into "foo" "bar $(baz \"toto\") titi".
What do you need this for ?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 16:56 Split string into shell words? Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-20 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-01-28 8:37 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-20 23:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-20 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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