Arrgv

Parsing string to array of args like node on bash do.

When you type something like node script.js bla bla bla in shell and do myArgs = process.argv.slice(2) you get the same. All slashes, quotes and special symbols are handled same way.

Install

npm install arrgv

Tests

$ npm test

Use cases

1. spawn a command that is given as a string
2. test argv parser with complicated example string
3. something else

Example

var arrgv = require('arrgv');
var str = '-param --format="hh:mm:ss" filename.ext';
console.log(arrgv(str));
/*
['-param',
 '--format=hh:mm:ss',
 'filename.ext' ]
*/

License

MIT