CmdLine Parsing - Cannot use `;` character in command data?

[henrygab]

The command line parsing currently checks for ; character anywhere in the input line, and treats it as the end of a command.

BusPirate5-firmware/src/ui/ui_cmdln.c

Line 490 in e1baaab

} else if (c == ';') {

This appears to have the inadvertent consequence of preventing the use of ; as data in any command.

[DangerousPrototypes]

;, &&, || are the standard linux command line concatenation symbols.

How is ; being used in command data? Strings I suppose? So the parser should be string aware perhaps?

[henrygab]

In essence, yes. Per discussions on forum, likely will update parser to support quoted ("") strings, and update parser to allow escaped quotation character (\") and backslash (\\) character, and to reject a single backslash character (\) ... but only when already within a quoted string.

If (and only if) there is a need for it, incremental upgrades could later add support for other escaped characters (thus the need to reject single backslash character).