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Bug 503

Summary: ParseCommandLine() lacks support for escaped doublequote
Product: SDL Reporter: Tony J. White <tjw>
Component: mainAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (All)   
Attachments: svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments
svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments #2

Description Tony J. White 2007-10-10 14:52:24 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Tony J. White 2007-10-10 14:53:12 UTC 
Created attachment 234 [details]
svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line arguments
Comment 2 Tony J. White 2007-10-10 15:01:45 UTC 
Created attachment 235 [details]
svn3450 - support escaped doublequote chars in command line  arguments #2

removed unused variable
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2007-12-29 10:58:51 UTC 
This is in subversion with revision 3487.  Thanks!