Allow escaping strings about kotlin-argparser

[Ceiridge]

xaxa more work

[xenomachina]

All of these, except the support for newlines or unicode escaping, should already be handled by your shell. Have you encountered a situation where this is not the case?

[Cydhra]

Yes. All cases, where the argument parser is not used for arguments from a shell, but another input source

[Cydhra]

I did an error in my thought process. The problem is that parsing a command line is a common task, if it is not done by a shell, but the lib does not offer a solution. So basically, everyone who handles a command line would have to parse it theirself before invoking ArgParser with the argument array.
It would be nice to have a secondary constructor of ArgParser that would also parse a complete command line with respect to quotation and escaping.

[xenomachina]

Kotlin-argparser, like most (possibly all) other command line argument parsers expects a list/array of command line arguments. This is the way the Kotlin (and Java, and even C) passes unparsed command line arguments to your application.

It sounds like what you need is something that takes a single-string command-line and turns it into a segmented argument array. I'm not convinced this falls within the scope of Kotlin-argparser. This sort of initial parsing is not trivial, and would probably be better handled by a separate library.

I know in Python there's the shlex module. I don't know of an equivalent for Java or Kotlin. This Stack Overflow question has a few answers, but none seem really "complete".

Out of curiosity, where are you getting these command line strings?

[Cydhra]

Well, I kind of expected it would be declared out of scope :D
I am working on a game-mod and among other things added a terminal-like interface to interact with different elements for debugging and configuring purpose. The terminal obviously does not invoke a shell to parse its input.