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- .PP
- Given a single string and an argdesc array, \fIsparseargs\fP
- will parse arguments from a string in much the manner as \fIparseargs\fP.
- .I Sparseargs
- will split the given string up into a vector of whitespace
- separated tokens and then attempt to parse the resultant vector as
- if it were given as \f4argv[]\fP on the command-line.
- NO special treatment is given to characters such as single-quotes,
- double-quotes, or anything else. \fISparseargs\fP will always assume that
- any whitespace characters are intended as argument separators.
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