Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone automate stdio

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 5/18/05, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> I also haven't looked at how this parses the strings that are written
> to stdin to get a command out, but I suspect that similar tricks would
> be a good idea.  Maybe make the format the constant "l", then a bunch
> of <decimal length><constant ":"><that many characters> argument
> strings, then the constant "e" to mark the end of the list.
> Semi-arbitrary, but happens to be the same as bencoding :-).
> Definitely better than trying to do real command line parsing, with
> quotes and argument splitting and goodness knows what...

It uses operator>>(istream, string) . So items are whitespace
separated, and whitespace is ignored.

Tim