strv: add strv_split_colon_pairs function

Given a string in the format 'one:two three four:five', returns a string
vector with each word. If the second element of the tuple is not
present, an empty string is returned in its place, so that the vector
can be processed in pairs.

[zjs: use EXTRACT_UNESCAPE_SEPARATORS instead of EXTRACT_CUNESCAPE_RELAX.
This way we do escaping exactly once and in normal strict mode.]

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/strv.h b/src/basic/strv.h
index 2ad927bce5..e57dfff69b 100644
--- a/src/basic/strv.h
+++ b/src/basic/strv.h
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ char **strv_split_newlines(const char *s);
 
 int strv_split_extract(char ***t, const char *s, const char *separators, ExtractFlags flags);
 
+/* Given a string containing white-space separated tuples of words themselves separated by ':',
+ * returns a vector of strings. If the second element in a tuple is missing, the corresponding
+ * string in the vector is an empty string. */
+int strv_split_colon_pairs(char ***t, const char *s);
+
 char *strv_join_prefix(char * const *l, const char *separator, const char *prefix);
 static inline char *strv_join(char * const *l, const char *separator) {
         return strv_join_prefix(l, separator, NULL);