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The user with no hat
The user with no hat

Reputation: 10846

Go generate escape characters

I have a go generate directive which looks like this:

//go:generate myprog -someName thisname -data 'Request: Typ "." callMe, Rsp:  MyTyp "." close'

The issue is that the program receives only value of -someName flag ("thisname"). I assume the -data flag is discarded for some reasons. Any idea why? It's working if I execute the program directly from command line so I guess it's a go specific issue.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1118

Answers (1)

Volker
Volker

Reputation: 42413

From the design document of go generate https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V03LUfjSADDooDMhe-_K59EgpTEm3V8uvQRuNMAEnjg/edit:

The arguments are space-separated tokens (or double-quoted strings) passed to the generator as individual arguments when it is run.

So if you want to pass an argument containing space you will have to double quote them. You used single quotes which works in your shell but not with go generate

Upvotes: 5

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