On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 15:25:02 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 14:53:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Then complain to Microsoft :) This is Microsoft's command
shell sending that parameter to your program.
This is how CommandLineToArgvW behaves, which is called by
druntime to parse the command line. For example, xcopy parses
the command line correctly, e.g. this works as expected:
xcopy file "..\"
As far as I know, CommandLineToArgvW is *the* correct way to
parse command-line arguments on Windows. If you do not use it,
then your program will not work correctly when invoked by other
programs which assume you use it, and this includes most programs
which use libraries that accept program arguments as an array
(which is the correct abstraction for program arguments anyway).
The fact that some standard Windows utilities do not obey this
convention is more likely a historical artifact from DOS days.
