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. */
26 #include "libiberty.h"
28 #define ISBLANK(ch) ((ch) == ' ' || (ch) == '\t')
30 /* Routines imported from standard C runtime libraries. */
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 */
51 #include "alloca-conf.h"
61 #define INITIAL_MAXARGC 8 /* Number of args + NULL in initial argv */
68 dupargv -- duplicate an argument vector
72 char **dupargv (vector)
77 Duplicate an argument vector. Simply scans through the
78 vector, duplicating each argument until the
79 terminating NULL is found.
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.
100 for (argc = 0; argv[argc] != NULL; argc++);
101 copy = (char **) malloc ((argc + 1) * sizeof (char *));
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)
115 strcpy (copy[argc], argv[argc]);
125 freeargv -- free an argument vector
129 void freeargv (vector)
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.
144 void freeargv (vector)
147 register char **scan;
151 for (scan = vector; *scan != NULL; scan++)
163 buildargv -- build an argument vector from a string
167 char **buildargv (sp)
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
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.
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.
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)
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))
231 if ((maxargc == 0) || (argc >= (maxargc - 1)))
233 /* argv needs initialization, or expansion */
236 maxargc = INITIAL_MAXARGC;
237 nargv = (char **) malloc (maxargc * sizeof (char *));
242 nargv = (char **) realloc (argv, maxargc * sizeof (char *));
256 /* Begin scanning arg */
258 while (*input != EOS)
260 if (ISBLANK (*input) && !squote && !dquote && !bsquote)
271 else if (*input == '\\')
303 else if (*input == '"')
316 argv[argc] = strdup (copybuf);
317 if (argv[argc] == NULL)
326 while (ISBLANK (*input))
331 while (*input != EOS);
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 ",
363 for (test = tests; *test != NULL; test++)
365 printf ("buildargv(\"%s\")\n", *test);
366 if ((argv = buildargv (*test)) == NULL)
368 printf ("failed!\n\n");
372 for (targs = argv; *targs != NULL; targs++)
374 printf ("\t\"%s\"\n", *targs);