code review 4051041: strings: new SplitQuoted() function

strings: new SplitQuoted() function

SplitQuoted() splits a string taking quotes and escaping
into consideration, in a way equivalent to how a shell
would do it.  E.g.:

	`a b:"c d" 'e''f'  "g\""`

Would be parsed as:

	[]string{"a", "b:c d", "ef", `g"`}

[niemeyer, 2011-01-17 09:03:31]

Hello golang-dev@googlegroups.com (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change.

[r2, 2011-01-17 22:12:21]

I'm not comfortable with this. Into a standard Go package, you're putting a
parser for another language's lexemes.  The issue isn't the utility but the
placement.

-rob

[niemeyer, 2011-01-17 22:18:44]

> I'm not comfortable with this. Into a standard Go package, you're putting a
> parser for another language's lexemes.  The issue isn't the utility but the
> placement.

I wondered about the placement myself, but at the same time it felt like the
functionality was generic enough to be useful even when not handling arguments,
which is why the first suggestion was the strings package.

I'm not specially attached to this placement, though.  What do you suggest
instead? exec? os?  Or a third package entirely?

[rsc, 2011-01-18 00:11:18]

I don't think this belongs in the standard library at all.
There are so many possible interpretations of "quoted"
that it's as ill-specified as csv.

Russ

[niemeyer, 2011-01-18 00:26:49]

Understood, thanks. Closing.

[niemeyer, 2011-01-18 17:48:25]

*** Abandoned ***