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    SplitCommandLine

    Split commandline in a series of separate arguments.

    Declaration

    Source position: strutils.pp line 320

    function SplitCommandLine(S: RawByteString) : TRawByteStringArray;

    function SplitCommandLine(S: UnicodeString) : TUnicodeStringArray;

    Description

    SplitCommandline parses S into words separated by whitespace, and returns a list of separate words (command-line arguments): When parsing it takes into account quoting with single (') or double quote (") characters: a word that contains whitespace can be enclosed in a quote character and will be considered a single word.

    You can call this function with a UnicodeString or a RawByteString, the resulting array will have the same type of elements.

    for example: 

    first "second argument" 'third argument'

    Will result in an array of 3 elements

    • first
    • second argument
    • third argument

    See also

    Name Description
    TRawByteStringArray Array of RawByteString.
    TUnicodeStringArray