src/cmd/dist/quoted.go

// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package main

import "fmt"

// quotedSplit is a verbatim copy from cmd/internal/quoted.go:Split and its
// dependencies (isSpaceByte). Since this package is built using the host's
// Go compiler, it cannot use `cmd/internal/...`. We also don't want to export
// it to all Go users.
//
// Please keep those in sync.
func quotedSplit(s string) ([]string, error) {
	// Split fields allowing '' or "" around elements.
	// Quotes further inside the string do not count.
	var f []string
	for len(s) > 0 {
		for len(s) > 0 && isSpaceByte(s[0]) {
			s = s[1:]
		}
		if len(s) == 0 {
			break
		}
		// Accepted quoted string. No unescaping inside.
		if s[0] == '"' || s[0] == '\'' {
			quote := s[0]
			s = s[1:]
			i := 0
			for i < len(s) && s[i] != quote {
				i++
			}
			if i >= len(s) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("unterminated %c string", quote)
			}
			f = append(f, s[:i])
			s = s[i+1:]
			continue
		}
		i := 0
		for i < len(s) && !isSpaceByte(s[i]) {
			i++
		}
		f = append(f, s[:i])
		s = s[i:]
	}
	return f, nil
}

func isSpaceByte(c byte) bool {
	return c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\n' || c == '\r'
}