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This version accepts whitespace before and after boolean terms in
parse_boolean_term and expands its documentation comment to describe
what it accepts and how that relates to Xapian and make_boolean_term.

The diff from v3 is below.

diff --git a/util/string-util.c b/util/string-util.c
index 83b4953..52c7781 100644
--- a/util/string-util.c
+++ b/util/string-util.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include "string-util.h"
 #include "talloc.h"

+#include <ctype.h>
+
 char *
 strtok_len (char *s, const char *delim, size_t *len)
 {
@@ -97,6 +99,14 @@ make_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *prefix, const char 
*term,
     return 0;
 }

+static const char*
+skip_space (const char *str)
+{
+    while (*str && isspace (*str))
+       ++str;
+    return str;
+}
+
 int
 parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,
                    char **prefix_out, char **term_out)
@@ -104,6 +114,7 @@ parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,
     *prefix_out = *term_out = NULL;

     /* Parse prefix */
+    str = skip_space (str);
     const char *pos = strchr (str, ':');
     if (! pos)
        goto FAIL;
@@ -123,6 +134,7 @@ parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,
                if (*pos != '"') {
                    /* Found the closing quote. */
                    closed = 1;
+                   pos = skip_space (pos);
                    break;
                }
            }
@@ -138,11 +150,11 @@ parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,
        /* Check for text after the boolean term. */
        while (*pos > ' ' && *pos != ')')
            ++pos;
-       if (*pos)
+       if (*skip_space (pos))
            goto FAIL;
        /* No trailing text; dup the string so the caller can free
         * it. */
-       *term_out = talloc_strdup (ctx, start);
+       *term_out = talloc_strndup (ctx, start, pos - start);
     }
     return 0;

diff --git a/util/string-util.h b/util/string-util.h
index 43d49d0..8b9fe50 100644
--- a/util/string-util.h
+++ b/util/string-util.h
@@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ char *strtok_len (char *s, const char *delim, size_t *len);
 int make_boolean_term (void *talloc_ctx, const char *prefix, const char *term,
                       char **buf, size_t *len);

-/* Parse a boolean term query produced by make_boolean_term, returning
- * the prefix in *prefix_out and the term in *term_out.  *prefix_out
- * and *term_out will be talloc'd with context ctx.
+/* Parse a boolean term query consisting of a prefix, a colon, and a
+ * term that may be quoted as described for make_boolean_term.  If the
+ * term is not quoted, then it ends at the first whitespace or close
+ * parenthesis.  str may containing leading or trailing whitespace,
+ * but anything else is considered a parse error.  This is compatible
+ * with anything produced by make_boolean_term, and supports a subset
+ * of the quoting styles supported by Xapian (and hence notmuch).
+ * *prefix_out and *term_out will be talloc'd with context ctx.
  *
- * Return: 0 on success, non-zero on parse error (including trailing
- * data in str).
+ * Return: 0 on success, non-zero on parse error.
  */
 int
 parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,


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