+
+/* Split a line into arguments, where every argument can be in the
+ * following programming-language REPL-alike form:
+ *
+ * foo bar "newline are supported\n" and "\xff\x00otherstuff"
+ *
+ * The number of arguments is stored into *argc, and an array
+ * of sds is returned. The caller should sdsfree() all the returned
+ * strings and finally zfree() the array itself.
+ *
+ * Note that sdscatrepr() is able to convert back a string into
+ * a quoted string in the same format sdssplitargs() is able to parse.
+ */
+sds *sdssplitargs(char *line, int *argc) {
+ char *p = line;
+ char *current = NULL;
+ char **vector = NULL;
+
+ *argc = 0;
+ while(1) {
+ /* skip blanks */
+ while(*p && isspace(*p)) p++;
+ if (*p) {
+ /* get a token */
+ int inq=0; /* set to 1 if we are in "quotes" */
+ int done = 0;
+
+ if (current == NULL) current = sdsempty();
+ while(!done) {
+ if (inq) {
+ if (*p == '\\' && *(p+1)) {
+ char c;
+
+ p++;
+ switch(*p) {
+ case 'n': c = '\n'; break;
+ case 'r': c = '\r'; break;
+ case 't': c = '\t'; break;
+ case 'b': c = '\b'; break;
+ case 'a': c = '\a'; break;
+ default: c = *p; break;
+ }
+ current = sdscatlen(current,&c,1);
+ } else if (*p == '"') {
+ done = 1;
+ } else {
+ current = sdscatlen(current,p,1);
+ }
+ } else {
+ switch(*p) {
+ case ' ':
+ case '\n':
+ case '\r':
+ case '\t':
+ case '\0':
+ done=1;
+ break;
+ case '"':
+ inq=1;
+ break;
+ default:
+ current = sdscatlen(current,p,1);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ if (*p) p++;
+ }
+ /* add the token to the vector */
+ vector = zrealloc(vector,((*argc)+1)*sizeof(char*));
+ vector[*argc] = current;
+ (*argc)++;
+ current = NULL;
+ } else {
+ return vector;
+ }
+ }
+}