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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?
Date: 10 Sep 2024 19:01:37 GMT
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I have the case where my C program is handed a string which is basically
a command line.

Is there a common open source C library for tokenizing and globbing
this into an argc/argv as a shell would do?  I've googled, but I get
too much C++ & other language stuff.

Note that I'm not asking for getopt(), that comes afterwards, and
I'm not asking for any variable interpolation, but just that a string
like, say

	hello -world "This is foo.*" foo.*

becomes something like
	
	my_argv[0]	"hello"
	my_argv[1]	"-world"
	my_argv[2] "This is foo.*"
	my_argv[3] foo.h
	my_argv[4] foo.c
	my_argv[5] foo.txt

	my_argc = 6

I could live without the globbing if that's a bridge too far.
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