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- #
- # File: argparse.icn
- #
- # Subject: Procedure to parse pseudo-command-line
- #
- # Author: Ralph E. Griswold
- #
- # Date: November 14, 1991
- #
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- #
- # argparse(s) parses s as if it were a command line and puts the components in
- # in a list, which is returned.
- #
- # At present, it does not accept any escape conventions.
- #
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-
- procedure argparse(s)
- local arglist
- static nonblank
-
- initial nonblank := &cset -- ' \t\n'
-
- arglist := []
-
- s ? {
- while tab(upto(nonblank)) do
- put(arglist, tab(many(nonblank)))
- }
-
- return arglist
-
- end
-