git-lfs/tools/str_tools.go
Taylor Blau a35f0759de tools: handle empty pairs of balanced quotes
If a quote is empty on its own, i.e., '', match an empty string. Otherwise, if
the quote is empty and inside another set of balanced quotes, treat it as-is,
i.e., "foo """ matches []string{"foo \"\""}.
2017-02-21 11:45:52 -07:00

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package tools
import "regexp"
var (
// quoteFieldRe greedily matches between matching pairs of '', "", or
// non-word characters.
quoteFieldRe = regexp.MustCompile("'(.*)'|\"(.*)\"|(\\S*)")
)
// QuotedFields is an alternative to strings.Fields (see:
// https://golang.org/pkg/strings#Fields) that respects spaces between matching
// pairs of quotation delimeters.
//
// For instance, the quoted fields of the string "foo bar 'baz etc'" would be:
// []string{"foo", "bar", "baz etc"}
//
// Whereas the same argument given to strings.Fields, would return:
// []string{"foo", "bar", "'baz", "etc'"}
func QuotedFields(s string) []string {
submatches := quoteFieldRe.FindAllStringSubmatch(s, -1)
out := make([]string, 0, len(submatches))
for _, matches := range submatches {
// if a leading or trailing space is found, ignore that
if matches[0] == "" {
continue
}
// otherwise, find the first non-empty match (inside balanced
// quotes, or a space-delimited string)
var str string
for _, m := range matches[1:] {
if len(m) > 0 {
str = m
break
}
}
out = append(out, str)
}
return out
}