Command Line Parameters with double quotation marks are not parsed properly by C runtime library used on windows platform by GO, ["TestPassword"] results in [TestPassword]. Quotes filtered out, no escape possible. #69057
Description
Go version
go version go1.22.2 windows/amd64
Output of go env in your module/workspace:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4037]
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V:\Go\Tests\test show command line parameters\version 0.02 add c debugging>go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\skybu\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\skybu\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOEXPERIMENT=
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GOMODCACHE=v:\gopath\pkg\mod
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=v:\gopath
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
set GOROOT=G:\Tools\Go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLCHAIN=auto
set GOTOOLDIR=G:\Tools\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GOVCS=
set GOVERSION=go1.22.2
set GCCGO=gccgo
set GOAMD64=v1
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=0
set GOMOD=V:\Go\Tests\test show command line parameters\version 0.02 add c debugging\go.mod
set GOWORK=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-O2 -g
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g
set CGO_FFLAGS=-O2 -g
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-O2 -g
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=G:\Temp\go-build1046575745=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches
V:\Go\Tests\test show command line parameters\version 0.02 add c debugging>What did you do?
Trying to pass: ["TestPassword"]
Tried all kinds of escape characters. " " Simply gets filtered out resulting in wrong input: [TestPassword]
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"runtime/debug"
)
func main() {
if len(os.Args) > 1 {
fmt.Println("Command line arguments:")
// Store each argument in a separate variable inside the loop
for i, arg := range os.Args[1:] {
// Store the current argument in a variable for debugging
currentArg := arg
// Print the stored variable for debugging
fmt.Printf("Argument %d: %s\n", i+1, currentArg)
}
} else {
fmt.Println("No command line arguments provided.")
}
}
What did you see happen?
Wrong input: [TestPassword]
What did you expect to see?
["TestPassword"]