Module: Shellwords

Defined in:
lib/ruber/utils.rb

Class Method Summary (collapse)

Class Method Details

+ (<String>) split_with_quotes(str)

Similar to Shellwords.split, but attempts to include quotes in the returned array for strings containing spaces.

Since it’s impossible to find out from the output of Shellwords#split whether a string was quoted with signle or double quotes, the following approach is taken: if the string contains double quotes, it’s sourrounded with single quotes; otherwise double quotes are used.

TODO: improve on the above algorithm. whitespaces quoted according to the above algorithm

Parameters:

  • str (String) —

    the string to split

Returns:

  • (<String>) —

    an array as with Shellwords#split but with strings containing



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# File 'lib/ruber/utils.rb', line 445

def self.split_with_quotes str
  res = split str
  res.map! do |s|
    unless s.include? ' ' then s
    else
      quote = s.include?('"') ? "'" : '"'
      quote + s + quote
    end
  end
  res
end