In std.process.ArgIteratorWindows, don't treat unclosed quotes like they're escaped #5667
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Currently, if
std.process.ArgIteratorWindows
's argument parser sees a quotation mark that doesn't have a corresponding closing quote, it acts like it's escaped. For example,a b "c d
is parsed as four arguments:a
,b
,"c
,d
.This PR removes this behavior, so
a b "c d
is instead parsed as three arguments:a
,b
,c d
. This better matches the way other Windows commands parse arguments---TYPE "a b.txt
prints the contents of a file calleda b.txt
---and the wayCommandLineToArgvW
works. This also makesArgIteratorWindows
a little simpler/faster since it no longer needs to count the total number of quotation marks in the command line.(It's possible the current behavior was introduced because if you pass a string like
ab"cd
toCommandLineToArgvW
, the returned string includes the quotation mark. But I think this is because of a different oddity inCommandLineToArgvW
-- see #2222 (comment) -- and it doesn't happen if you pass a string likea b"cd
that has a space somewhere before the quotation mark.)