Function FormatPathFromComplexString

filehelper.go:119–155

FormatPathFromComplexString search for file/directory path and remove environments variables, quotes and extra parameters

(command string)

// FormatPathFromComplexString search for file/directory path and remove environments variables, quotes and extra parameters
func FormatPathFromComplexString(command string) (paths []string) {
	var buffer []string

	// quoted path
	if strings.Contains(command, `"`) || strings.Contains(command, `'`) {
		re := regexp.MustCompile(`[\'\"](.+)[\'\"]`)
		matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(command)
		for i := range matches {
			if i != 0 {
				buffer = append(buffer, matches[i])
			}
		}
	} else {
		for _, i := range strings.Split(strings.Replace(command, ",", "", -1), " ") {
			buffer = append(buffer, i)
		}

	}

	for _, item := range buffer {
		// environment variables
		if strings.Contains(command, `%`) {
			re := regexp.MustCompile(`%(\w+)%`)
			res := re.FindStringSubmatch(item)
			for i := range res {
				item = strings.Replace(item, "%"+res[i]+"%", os.Getenv(res[i]), -1)
			}
		}

		// check if file exists
		if _, err := os.Stat(item); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
			paths = append(paths, item)
		}
	}

	return paths
}

// RetrivesFilesFromUserPath return a []string of available files from given path (includeFileExtensions is available only if listFiles is true)
func RetrivesFilesFromUserPath(path string, listFiles bool, includeFileExtensions []string, recursive bool, verbose bool) ([]string, error) {