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Simple question - is there something like python's shlex package that would allow me to simply parse/split/quote/escape shell-like quoted/backslashed strings in C or (possibly) C++?
The shlex package is just wonderful with its purpose (giving easy births to minilanguages and stuff), having similar common processing tool in C would be nice.
Link to shlex docs: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/shlex.html
Example of what shlex does:
>>> import shlex
>>> shlex.split('abc ab\\ c "ab\\"cd" key="\\"val\\""')
['abc', 'ab c', 'ab"cd', 'key="val"']
