Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: handle email address with quoted comma

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:40:13AM +0200, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Correctly handle email addresses containing quoted commas, e.g.
> >
> > 	"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Here the commas inside the double quotes are NOT email separators.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > @@ -359,6 +360,12 @@ foreach my $entry (@bcclist) {
> >  	die "Comma in --bcclist entry: $entry'\n" unless $entry !~ m/,/;
> >  }
> >  
> > +sub split_addrs($) {
> > +	my ($addrs) = @_;
> > +
> > +	return &quotewords('\s*,\s*', 1, $addrs);
> > +}
> > +
> 
> Does it add real value (e.g. type safety, simplified interface to the
> caller, etc.) to force scalar context to the callers?  It has been my
> experience that use of prototypes (aka "parameter context templates") in
> Perl programs tend to make the code less readable and more error prone in
> longer term.  I would further say that, even though you do not have any
> existing caller of split_addrs sub that uses it for more than two values,
> not using the prototype would be a better way to write this sub in this
> particular case, because it would allow callers to say [*1*]:
> 
> 	@addrs = split_addr(@list_of_addr_lines);
> 
> It also is a bit funny-looking to invoke &function() (it is Perl4 style,
> isn't it?)
> 
> IOW, wouldn't this be a better alternative?
> 
> 	sub split_addrs {
>         	return quotewords('\s*,\s*', 1, @_);
> 	}

Hi Junio and Matt, 

Thank you for the helpful information. The patch is updated and tested
according to your comments.

Thanks,
Fengguang
---
git-send-email: handle email address with quoted comma

Correctly handle email addresses containing quoted commas, e.g.

	"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

Here the commas inside the double quotes are NOT email separators.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 git-send-email.perl |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 3112f76..6114401 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Term::ReadLine;
 use Getopt::Long;
+use Text::ParseWords;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use Term::ANSIColor;
 use File::Temp qw/ tempdir /;
@@ -359,6 +360,10 @@ foreach my $entry (@bcclist) {
 	die "Comma in --bcclist entry: $entry'\n" unless $entry !~ m/,/;
 }
 
+sub split_addrs {
+	return parse_line('\s*,\s*', 1, @_);
+}
+
 my %aliases;
 my %parse_alias = (
 	# multiline formats can be supported in the future
@@ -367,7 +372,7 @@ my %parse_alias = (
 			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
 			$addr =~ s/#.*$//; # mutt allows # comments
 			 # commas delimit multiple addresses
-			$aliases{$alias} = [ split(/\s*,\s*/, $addr) ];
+			$aliases{$alias} = [ split_addrs($addr) ];
 		}}},
 	mailrc => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
 		if (/^alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
@@ -379,7 +384,7 @@ my %parse_alias = (
 			chomp $x;
 		        $x .= $1 while(defined($_ = <$fh>) && /^ +(.*)$/);
 			$x =~ /^(\S+)$f\t\(?([^\t]+?)\)?(:?$f){0,2}$/ or next;
-			$aliases{$1} = [ split(/\s*,\s*/, $2) ];
+			$aliases{$1} = [ split_addrs($2) ];
 		}},
 	gnus => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
 		if (/\(define-mail-alias\s+"(\S+?)"\s+"(\S+?)"\)/) {
@@ -588,7 +593,7 @@ if (!@to) {
 	}
 
 	my $to = $_;
-	push @to, split /,\s*/, $to;
+	push @to, split_addrs($to);
 	$prompting++;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.0.4

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