Modified the command method. Allowing args to be multi-word strings e…

…nclosed in single/double quotes

.gitignore

@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@ node_modules
 
 # Optional REPL history
 .node_repl_history
+
+# Ignore IDE files
+.idea

src/command/index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+var tokenize = require('./tokenize');
+
 /** @public module */
 module.exports = function( b9 ){
 
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ module.exports = function( b9 ){
       return;
     }
     // {array} argument vector
-    var argv = msg.text.split(/ +/), cmd, i = 1, direct;
+    var argv = tokenize(msg.text), cmd, i = 1, direct;
     // indicates a specific [start of message] mention
     if ( msg.text.indexOf('<@'+ b9.self.id +'>') === 0 ){
       argv = argv.slice(1); // shift arguments

src/command/test.js

@@ -75,6 +75,30 @@ describe('src/command',function(){
     assert.equal( arg, 'xyz' );
   });
 
+  it('registers a command and tokenize multi-word string arguments',function(){
+    var argv;
+
+    // register another command
+    bot.command('foo [arg1] [arg2] [arg3] [arg4] [arg5] [arg6] [arg7]',
+        'the foo command',
+        function( msg ){
+          argv = msg.argv;
+        }
+    );
+
+    // simulate command
+    simulate('foo \"hello world\" arg1 arg2 \'multi arg that has nested strings \"haha hehe\"\' arg3     anotherArg     _arg4_');
+
+    // optional arg is defined
+    assert.equal(argv.arg1, 'hello world' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg2, 'arg1' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg3, 'arg2' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg4, 'multi arg that has nested strings "haha hehe"' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg5, 'arg3' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg6, 'anotherArg' );
+    assert.equal(argv.arg7, '_arg4_' );
+  });
+
   it('has an informative `help` command',function(){
     // local ref
     var lines = [];

src/command/tokenize.js

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+function tokenize (str) {
+    var tokens = [];
+    var k, i, temp;
+    var strLen = str.length;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < strLen; i++) {
+        if (str[i] === '\"') {
+            // Keep reading chars until
+            for (temp = [], k = i+1; k < strLen && str[k] !== '\"'; k++) {
+                temp.push(str[k]);
+            }
+            tokens.push(temp.join(''));
+            i = k+1;
+        }
+
+        if (str[i] === '\'') {
+            // Keep reading chars until
+            for (temp = [], k = i+1; k < strLen && str[k] !== '\''; k++) {
+                temp.push(str[k]);
+            }
+            tokens.push(temp.join(''));
+            i = k+1;
+        }
+
+        if (str[i] && str[i] !== ' ') {
+            // Keep reading chars until
+            for (temp = [], k = i; k < strLen && str[k] !== ' '; k++) {
+                temp.push(str[k]);
+            }
+            tokens.push(temp.join(''));
+            i = k;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return tokens;
+}
+
+module.exports = tokenize;