4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Written by: Jeff Conrad (jeff_conrad@msn.com)
6 and Keith Marshall (keith.d.marshall@ntlworld.com)
8 This file is part of groff.
10 groff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
11 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
12 Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
15 groff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
16 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
17 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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22 Foundation, 51 Franklin St - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
30 /* Define the default mechanism, and messages, for error reporting
31 * (user may substitute a preferred alternative, by defining his own
32 * implementation of the macros REPORT_ERROR, QUOTE_ARG_MALLOC_FAILED
33 * and QUOTE_ARG_REALLOC_FAILED, in the header file `nonposix.h').
39 # define REPORT_ERROR(WHY) fprintf(stderr, "%s:%s\n", program_name, WHY)
41 #ifndef QUOTE_ARG_MALLOC_ERROR
42 # define QUOTE_ARG_MALLOC_ERROR "malloc: Buffer allocation failed"
44 #ifndef QUOTE_ARG_REALLOC_ERROR
45 # define QUOTE_ARG_REALLOC_ERROR "realloc: Buffer resize failed"
48 extern char *program_name
; /* main program must define this */
56 needs_quoting(const char *string
)
58 /* Scan `string' to see whether it needs quoting for MSVC `spawn'/`exec'
59 * (i.e., whether it contains whitespace or embedded quotes).
62 if (string
== NULL
) /* ignore NULL strings */
65 if (*string
== '\0') /* explicit arguments of zero length */
66 return TRUE
; /* need quoting, so they aren't discarded */
69 /* Scan non-NULL strings, up to '\0' terminator,
70 * returning 'TRUE' if quote or white space found.
73 if (*string
== '"' || isspace(*string
))
76 /* otherwise, continue scanning to end of string */
81 /* Fall through, if no quotes or white space found,
82 * in which case, return `FALSE'.
89 quote_arg(char *string
)
91 /* Enclose arguments in double quotes so that the parsing done in the
92 * MSVC runtime startup code doesn't split them at whitespace. Escape
93 * embedded double quotes so that they emerge intact from the parsing.
99 if (needs_quoting(string
)) {
100 /* Need to create a quoted copy of `string';
101 * maximum buffer space needed is twice the original length,
102 * plus two enclosing quotes and one `\0' terminator.
105 if ((quoted
= (char *)malloc(2 * strlen(string
) + 3)) == NULL
) {
106 /* Couldn't get a buffer for the quoted string,
107 * so complain, and bail out gracefully.
110 REPORT_ERROR(QUOTE_ARG_MALLOC_ERROR
);
115 * insert the opening quote, then copy the source string,
116 * adding escapes as required.
120 for (backslashes
= 0, p
= string
, q
= quoted
; *p
; p
++) {
122 /* Just count backslashes when we find them.
123 * We will copy them out later, when we know if the count
124 * needs to be adjusted, to escape an embedded quote.
129 else if (*p
== '"') {
130 /* This embedded quote character must be escaped,
131 * but first double up any immediately preceding backslashes,
132 * with one extra, as the escape character.
135 for (backslashes
+= backslashes
+ 1; backslashes
; backslashes
--)
138 /* and now, add the quote character itself */
143 /* Any other character is simply copied,
144 * but first, if we have any pending backslashes,
145 * we must now insert them, without any count adjustment.
148 while (backslashes
) {
153 /* and then, copy the current character */
159 /* At end of argument:
160 * If any backslashes remain to be copied out, append them now,
161 * doubling the actual count to protect against reduction by MSVC,
162 * as a consequence of the immediately following closing quote.
165 for (backslashes
+= backslashes
; backslashes
; backslashes
--)
169 * add the closing quote, terminate the quoted string,
170 * and adjust its size to what was actually required,
176 if ((string
= (char *)realloc(quoted
, strlen(quoted
) + 1)) == NULL
) {
177 /* but bail out gracefully, on error */
179 REPORT_ERROR(QUOTE_ARG_REALLOC_ERROR
);
184 /* `string' now refers to the argument,
185 * quoted and escaped, as required.
192 purge_quoted_args(char **argv
)
194 /* To avoid memory leaks,
195 * free all memory previously allocated by `quoted_arg()',
196 * within the scope of the referring argument vector, `argv'.
201 /* Any argument beginning with a double quote
202 * SHOULD have been allocated by `quoted_arg()'.
206 free( *argv
); /* so free its allocation */
207 ++argv
; /* and continue to the next argument */
211 /* quotearg.c: end of file */