68 lines
2.1 KiB
Lua
68 lines
2.1 KiB
Lua
local M = {}
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-- this function will split a string into a table of tokens, like it would
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-- be passed into the `argv` of a program that was executed from the commandline
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--
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-- @param string raw string of cli args that should be split
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-- @return table tokens args as a table
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M.tokenize_args = function(raw)
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-- NOTE: string.gmatch is does not use regex, but a smaller pattern matcher!
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-- A complete regex parser would be larger than lua itself. See
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-- [Programming in Lua 20.2](https://www.lua.org/pil/20.2.html).
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--
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-- Notable differences:
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-- '-' is ungreedy wildcard
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-- '*?' does not work
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-- '|' is not or
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--
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-- This means we're better of implementing the lexer with an algorithm.
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local t = {}
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local current = ""
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local in_str = false
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local str_seek
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for c in string.gmatch(raw, ".") do -- iterate through all chars
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if c == ' ' and not in_str then
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if string.len(current) > 0 then
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table.insert(t, current)
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current = ""
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end
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elseif c == '"' and not in_str then
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in_str = true
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str_seek = '"'
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elseif c == "'" and not in_str then
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in_str = true
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str_seek = "'"
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elseif c == str_seek and in_str then
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in_str = false
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table.insert(t, current)
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current = ""
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else
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current = current .. c
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end
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end
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if string.len(current) > 0 then
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table.insert(t, current)
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end
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return t
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end
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--- dumps a variable into a string, so it can be printed. This is meant for
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--- debug prints
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--- @param any t any variable
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--- @return string t_dumped t dumped to string
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M.dump = function(t)
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if type(t) == 'table' then
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local s = '{ '
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for k, v in pairs(t) do
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if type(k) ~= 'number' then k = '"' .. k .. '"' end
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if k ~= 1 then
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s = s .. ', '
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end
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s = s .. '[' .. k .. '] = \'' .. M.dump(v) .. '\''
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end
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return s .. ' }'
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else
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return tostring(t)
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end
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end
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return M
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