CommandLineUtilities.cs

/*  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. */
/* AUTHOR: Vance Morrison   
 * Date  : 10/20/2007  */
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Utilities
{
    public delegate int MainBody();

    public class CommandLineUtilities
    {
        public static bool Debug = false;
        public static int RunConsoleMainWithExceptionProcessing(MainBody body)
        {
            if (Debug)
            {
                return body();
            }

            try
            {
                return body();
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                if (e is ApplicationException || e is FileNotFoundException || e is DirectoryNotFoundException)
                {
                    // Errors that think are really for user consumption I used ApplicationException for.  
                    // Just print the message and fail.  
                    Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message);
                    Console.WriteLine("Use /? for help.");
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("An exceptional condition occured.");
                    Console.WriteLine("Exception: " + e);
                    // output.WriteLine("Use /debug for additional debugging information.");
                }
                if (Debugger.IsAttached)
                {
                    Debugger.Break();
                }

                return 1;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Given a list of arguments, from 'startAt' to the end of 'arguments' quote any 
        /// arguments that have spaces in them so that the resulting command lineNumber has 
        /// been turned back into a string that could be passed to a subprocess.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param variable="arguments">The command lineNumber arguments parsed as space sparated token.</param>
        /// <param variable="startAt">The sampleIndex in 'arguments' of the sub-array of interest (typically 0).</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// A string that represents the original commannd lineNumber string before being parsed 
        /// into array of space separated arguments 
        /// </returns>
        public static string FormCommandLineFromArguments(string[] arguments, int startAt)
        {
            // TODO not quite right for strings with combinations of \ and "s 
            StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
            bool first = true;
            while (startAt < arguments.Length)
            {
                string arg = arguments[startAt++];
                // WriteLine("Got Arg " + arg);
                if (!first)
                {
                    ret.Append(' ');
                }

                first = false;
                if (Regex.IsMatch(arg, @"\s"))
                {
                    ret.Append('"');
                    string rest = arg;
                    while (true)
                    {
                        Match m = Regex.Match(rest, "^(.*?)(\\\\*)\"(.*)");  //  search for \"  \\" \\\"
                        if (!m.Success)
                        {
                            break;
                        }

                        ret.Append(m.Groups[1].Value);
                        ret.Append('\\', m.Groups[2].Value.Length * 2);
                        ret.Append("\\\"");
                        rest = m.Groups[3].Value;
                    }
                    Match mLast = Regex.Match(rest, "^(.*)(\\\\+)$");
                    if (mLast.Success)
                    {
                        ret.Append(mLast.Groups[1].Value);
                        ret.Append('\\', mLast.Groups[2].Value.Length * 2);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        ret.Append(rest);
                    }

                    ret.Append('"');
                }
                else
                {
                    ret.Append(arg);
                }
            }
            return ret.ToString();
        }
    }
}