Method splitLpsz

core/src/main/java/io/questdb/std/Chars.java:1207–1246

Split character sequence into a list of lpsz strings. This function uses space as a delimiter and it honours spaces in double quotes. Main use for this code is to produce list of C-compatible argument values from command line. @param args command line @return list of 0-terminated strings

(CharSequence args)

     * @return list of 0-terminated strings
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
    public static ObjList<Path> splitLpsz(CharSequence args) {
        final ObjList<Path> paths = new ObjList<>();
        int n = args.length();
        int lastLen = 0;
        int lastIndex = 0;
        boolean inQuote = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            char b = args.charAt(i);

            switch (b) {
                case ' ':
                    // ab c
                    if (lastLen > 0) {
                        if (inQuote) {
                            lastLen++;
                        } else {
                            paths.add(new Path().of(args, lastIndex, lastLen + lastIndex));
                            lastLen = 0;
                        }
                    }
                    break;
                case '"':
                    inQuote = !inQuote;
                    break;
                default:
                    if (lastLen == 0) {
                        lastIndex = i;
                    }
                    lastLen++;
                    break;

            }
        }

        if (lastLen > 0) {
            paths.add(new Path().of(args, lastIndex, lastLen + lastIndex));
        }
        return paths;
    }

    public static boolean startsWith(@Nullable CharSequence cs, @Nullable CharSequence starts) {
        if (cs == null || starts == null) {