- Breaks down the string containing the full command line in words. The
- words are separated by whitespace. The quotes can be used in the input
- string to quote the white space and the back slashes can be used to
- quote the quotes.
+ Breaks down the string containing the full command line in words.
+
+ Words are separated by whitespace and double quotes can be used to
+ preserve the spaces inside the words.
+
+ By default, this function uses Windows-like word splitting algorithm,
+ i.e. single quotes have no special meaning and backslash can't be used
+ to escape spaces neither. With @c wxCMD_LINE_SPLIT_UNIX flag Unix
+ semantics is used, i.e. both single and double quotes can be used and
+ backslash can be used to escape all the other special characters.