# [PATCH] git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files

1 messages from 2009-05-21 to 2009-05-21. Participants: Eric W. Biederman.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19427

## Eric W. Biederman, 2009-05-21 02:45

Subject: [PATCH] git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files
Message-ID: <1242873953-21394-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1242873953-21394-1-git-send-email-ebiederm%40xmission.com

```
It is legal and not uncommon to use quotes in a .mailrc file so
you can include a persons fullname as well as their email alias.
Handle this by using quotewords instead of split when parsing
.mailrc files.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index cccbf45..e3408d5 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ my %parse_alias = (
 	mailrc => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
 		if (/^alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
 			# spaces delimit multiple addresses
-			$aliases{$1} = [ split(/\s+/, $2) ];
+			$aliases{$1} = [ quotewords('\s+', 0, $2) ];
 		}}},
 	pine => sub { my $fh = shift; my $f='\t[^\t]*';
 	        for (my $x = ''; defined($x); $x = $_) {
-- 
1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty

```