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Support nested quoting

See original GitHub issue

As an enhancement to https://github.com/remkop/picocli/issues/594, we can support nested quotes.

For example, when splitting on the "," split regex, with a Map option whose keys have embedded '=' characters, we want to be able to parse input like this:

<cmd> --option "'keyprefix=keypostfix'=value","'key2=key2'=value2"

Giving a map with key-value pairs like this:

keyprefix=keypostfix : value
key2=key2 : value2

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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pubudu91commented, Jan 10, 2019

Yes, probably. As I said, it’s not an issue with picocli.

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remkopcommented, Jul 1, 2019

Adding this ticket to the 4.0 roadmap:

As part of the work for #738, picocli 4.0 will fully support nested backslash-escaped double quotes. Single quotes will not have any special meaning.

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