Double-quoted arguments including spaces are divided by Boost.Test.

[Shuji Yamasaki <shu@…>]

The commandline

test --opt "a b"

is parsed as

test --opt a b

.

argv_traverser, which re-tokenizes argv, is the culprit. After m_traverser.remainder( argc, argv ) at boost\test\utils\runtime\cla\parser.ipp:(159), the argc increases.

[Shuji Yamasaki <shu@…>]

patch

[Shuji Yamasaki <shu@…>]

I wrote a test program and fixed the problem, though I don't know whether the problem is really a bug or not.

Test Program:

#include <boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
using namespace boost::unit_test;

test_suite* init_unit_test_suite(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  cout << argc - 1 << endl;
  for(int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
    cout << argv[i] << endl;

  return 0;
}

Compile it into test.exe and run it as

test "first second"

, and then you'll get a result such as:
2
first
second

After patching:
1
first second

[Gennadiy Rozental]

This is addressed in trunk and is going to be released with next version of Boost

[Raffi Enficiaud]

reopening for keeping track of the change

[Raffi Enficiaud]

merged to master