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Does anyone have a cunning piece of pure-Lua code for argifying a
string? That is, turning this:
foo bar "baz bloo \"fnord" wibble
into this:
{'foo', 'bar', 'baz bloo "fnord', 'wibble'}
...?
I've had a look at the wiki, as this is a fairly stock problem, but
don't see anything.
Not at all pure Lua, but the Apache Portable Runtime contains apr_tokenize_to_argv() which does this and my Lua/APR binding includes support for this function:
http://peterodding.com/code/lua/apr/docs/#apr.tokenize_to_argvYou might not like the large dependency [or the binary module factor] but at least it exists! Worst case you could translate the APR command line parser to Lua ;-)
- Peter Odding