2001-05-28 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
[binutils.git] / libiberty / argv.c
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1 /* Create and destroy argument vectors (argv's)
2 Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Fred Fish @ Cygnus Support
5 This file is part of the libiberty library.
6 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
19 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22 /* Create and destroy argument vectors. An argument vector is simply an
23 array of string pointers, terminated by a NULL pointer. */
25 #include "ansidecl.h"
26 #include "libiberty.h"
28 #define ISBLANK(ch) ((ch) == ' ' || (ch) == '\t')
30 /* Routines imported from standard C runtime libraries. */
32 #ifdef __STDC__
34 #include <stddef.h>
35 #include <string.h>
36 #include <stdlib.h>
38 #else /* !__STDC__ */
40 #if !defined _WIN32 || defined __GNUC__
41 extern char *memcpy (); /* Copy memory region */
42 extern int strlen (); /* Count length of string */
43 extern char *malloc (); /* Standard memory allocater */
44 extern char *realloc (); /* Standard memory reallocator */
45 extern void free (); /* Free malloc'd memory */
46 extern char *strdup (); /* Duplicate a string */
47 #endif
49 #endif /* __STDC__ */
51 #include "alloca-conf.h"
53 #ifndef NULL
54 #define NULL 0
55 #endif
57 #ifndef EOS
58 #define EOS '\0'
59 #endif
61 #define INITIAL_MAXARGC 8 /* Number of args + NULL in initial argv */
66 NAME
68 dupargv -- duplicate an argument vector
70 SYNOPSIS
72 char **dupargv (vector)
73 char **vector;
75 DESCRIPTION
77 Duplicate an argument vector. Simply scans through the
78 vector, duplicating each argument until the
79 terminating NULL is found.
81 RETURNS
83 Returns a pointer to the argument vector if
84 successful. Returns NULL if there is insufficient memory to
85 complete building the argument vector.
89 char **
90 dupargv (argv)
91 char **argv;
93 int argc;
94 char **copy;
96 if (argv == NULL)
97 return NULL;
99 /* the vector */
100 for (argc = 0; argv[argc] != NULL; argc++);
101 copy = (char **) malloc ((argc + 1) * sizeof (char *));
102 if (copy == NULL)
103 return NULL;
105 /* the strings */
106 for (argc = 0; argv[argc] != NULL; argc++)
108 int len = strlen (argv[argc]);
109 copy[argc] = malloc (sizeof (char *) * (len + 1));
110 if (copy[argc] == NULL)
112 freeargv (copy);
113 return NULL;
115 strcpy (copy[argc], argv[argc]);
117 copy[argc] = NULL;
118 return copy;
123 NAME
125 freeargv -- free an argument vector
127 SYNOPSIS
129 void freeargv (vector)
130 char **vector;
132 DESCRIPTION
134 Free an argument vector that was built using buildargv. Simply scans
135 through the vector, freeing the memory for each argument until the
136 terminating NULL is found, and then frees the vector itself.
138 RETURNS
140 No value.
144 void freeargv (vector)
145 char **vector;
147 register char **scan;
149 if (vector != NULL)
151 for (scan = vector; *scan != NULL; scan++)
153 free (*scan);
155 free (vector);
161 NAME
163 buildargv -- build an argument vector from a string
165 SYNOPSIS
167 char **buildargv (sp)
168 char *sp;
170 DESCRIPTION
172 Given a pointer to a string, parse the string extracting fields
173 separated by whitespace and optionally enclosed within either single
174 or double quotes (which are stripped off), and build a vector of
175 pointers to copies of the string for each field. The input string
176 remains unchanged.
178 All of the memory for the pointer array and copies of the string
179 is obtained from malloc. All of the memory can be returned to the
180 system with the single function call freeargv, which takes the
181 returned result of buildargv, as it's argument.
183 The memory for the argv array is dynamically expanded as necessary.
185 RETURNS
187 Returns a pointer to the argument vector if successful. Returns NULL
188 if the input string pointer is NULL or if there is insufficient
189 memory to complete building the argument vector.
191 NOTES
193 In order to provide a working buffer for extracting arguments into,
194 with appropriate stripping of quotes and translation of backslash
195 sequences, we allocate a working buffer at least as long as the input
196 string. This ensures that we always have enough space in which to
197 work, since the extracted arg is never larger than the input string.
199 If the input is a null string (as opposed to a NULL pointer), then
200 buildarg returns an argv that has one arg, a null string.
202 Argv is always kept terminated with a NULL arg pointer, so it can
203 be passed to freeargv at any time, or returned, as appropriate.
206 char **buildargv (input)
207 char *input;
209 char *arg;
210 char *copybuf;
211 int squote = 0;
212 int dquote = 0;
213 int bsquote = 0;
214 int argc = 0;
215 int maxargc = 0;
216 char **argv = NULL;
217 char **nargv;
219 if (input != NULL)
221 copybuf = (char *) alloca (strlen (input) + 1);
222 /* Is a do{}while to always execute the loop once. Always return an
223 argv, even for null strings. See NOTES above, test case below. */
226 /* Pick off argv[argc] */
227 while (ISBLANK (*input))
229 input++;
231 if ((maxargc == 0) || (argc >= (maxargc - 1)))
233 /* argv needs initialization, or expansion */
234 if (argv == NULL)
236 maxargc = INITIAL_MAXARGC;
237 nargv = (char **) malloc (maxargc * sizeof (char *));
239 else
241 maxargc *= 2;
242 nargv = (char **) realloc (argv, maxargc * sizeof (char *));
244 if (nargv == NULL)
246 if (argv != NULL)
248 freeargv (argv);
249 argv = NULL;
251 break;
253 argv = nargv;
254 argv[argc] = NULL;
256 /* Begin scanning arg */
257 arg = copybuf;
258 while (*input != EOS)
260 if (ISBLANK (*input) && !squote && !dquote && !bsquote)
262 break;
264 else
266 if (bsquote)
268 bsquote = 0;
269 *arg++ = *input;
271 else if (*input == '\\')
273 bsquote = 1;
275 else if (squote)
277 if (*input == '\'')
279 squote = 0;
281 else
283 *arg++ = *input;
286 else if (dquote)
288 if (*input == '"')
290 dquote = 0;
292 else
294 *arg++ = *input;
297 else
299 if (*input == '\'')
301 squote = 1;
303 else if (*input == '"')
305 dquote = 1;
307 else
309 *arg++ = *input;
312 input++;
315 *arg = EOS;
316 argv[argc] = strdup (copybuf);
317 if (argv[argc] == NULL)
319 freeargv (argv);
320 argv = NULL;
321 break;
323 argc++;
324 argv[argc] = NULL;
326 while (ISBLANK (*input))
328 input++;
331 while (*input != EOS);
333 return (argv);
336 #ifdef MAIN
338 /* Simple little test driver. */
340 static char *tests[] =
342 "a simple command line",
343 "arg 'foo' is single quoted",
344 "arg \"bar\" is double quoted",
345 "arg \"foo bar\" has embedded whitespace",
346 "arg 'Jack said \\'hi\\'' has single quotes",
347 "arg 'Jack said \\\"hi\\\"' has double quotes",
348 "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9",
350 /* This should be expanded into only one argument. */
351 "trailing-whitespace ",
354 NULL
357 main ()
359 char **argv;
360 char **test;
361 char **targs;
363 for (test = tests; *test != NULL; test++)
365 printf ("buildargv(\"%s\")\n", *test);
366 if ((argv = buildargv (*test)) == NULL)
368 printf ("failed!\n\n");
370 else
372 for (targs = argv; *targs != NULL; targs++)
374 printf ("\t\"%s\"\n", *targs);
376 printf ("\n");
378 freeargv (argv);
383 #endif /* MAIN */