From c565c5ecb4f3dd766ff9156a4cf2d5d5adbc0396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis de Bethencourt <luis.bg@samsung.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:16:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] parse: check before truncating strings

Don't truncate the last character of a string if it isn't necessary.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688625
---
 gst/parse/grammar.y | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gst/parse/grammar.y b/gst/parse/grammar.y
index 53ee15b..f75d9bf 100644
--- a/gst/parse/grammar.y
+++ b/gst/parse/grammar.y
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static void gst_parse_element_set (gchar *value, GstElement *element, graph_t *g
   }
   pos++;
   while (g_ascii_isspace (*pos)) pos++;
-  if (*pos == '"') {
+  /* truncate a string if it is delimited with double quotes */
+  if (*pos == '"' && pos[strlen (pos) - 1] == '"') {
     pos++;
     pos[strlen (pos) - 1] = '\0';
   }
-- 
2.7.4