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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/separate_arguments.rst | 12 |
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diff --git a/Help/command/separate_arguments.rst b/Help/command/separate_arguments.rst index 0e3e5a5..1fd3cd1 100644 --- a/Help/command/separate_arguments.rst +++ b/Help/command/separate_arguments.rst @@ -13,19 +13,21 @@ entire command line must be given in one "<args>" argument. The ``UNIX_COMMAND`` mode separates arguments by unquoted whitespace. It recognizes both single-quote and double-quote pairs. A backslash -escapes the next literal character (\" is "); there are no special -escapes (\n is just n). +escapes the next literal character (``\"`` is ``"``); there are no special +escapes (``\n`` is just ``n``). The ``WINDOWS_COMMAND`` mode parses a windows command-line using the same syntax the runtime library uses to construct argv at startup. It separates arguments by whitespace that is not double-quoted. Backslashes are literal unless they precede double-quotes. See the -MSDN article "Parsing C Command-Line Arguments" for details. +MSDN article `Parsing C Command-Line Arguments`_ for details. + +.. _`Parsing C Command-Line Arguments`: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a1y7w461.aspx :: - separate_arguments(VARIABLE) + separate_arguments(<var>) -Convert the value of ``VARIABLE`` to a semi-colon separated list. All +Convert the value of ``<var>`` to a semi-colon separated list. All spaces are replaced with ';'. This helps with generating command lines. |