This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

These attachments are available in the static archive:

• svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments (SDL-svn3450-win32_escape_double_q, text/plain, 2007-10-10 14:53:12 +0000, 1431 bytes)
• svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments #2 (SDL-svn3450-win32_escape_double_q, text/plain, 2007-10-10 15:01:45 +0000, 1414 bytes)

Reported in version: HG 1.2
Reported for operating system, platform: Windows (All), x86

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2007-10-10 14:52:24 +0000, Tony J. White wrote:

The ParseCommandLine() function in SDL_win32_main.c does not support escaped doublequotes ("). This is problematic when trying to pass a quoted string to an SDL application on the command line. For instance, to start ioquake3 with a specified fs_homepath, I would run:

ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath ""C:\Program Files\Quake 3""

When using the SDL version of ioquake3.exe, the parsing ends at the second doublequote so the fs_homepath becomes just .

Attached patch adds support for parsing escaped double quotes.

On 2007-10-10 14:53:12 +0000, Tony J. White wrote:

Created attachment 234
svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments

On 2007-10-10 15:01:45 +0000, Tony J. White wrote:

Created attachment 235
svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments # 2

removed unused variable

On 2007-12-29 10:58:51 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

This is in subversion with revision 3487. Thanks!