[Bug] pmctl splitting index wrong if there is a '#' in the string

[Fl1tzi]

This bug was created using the conversation with Giovanni Gelijns#5347 on Discord.
Conversation: https://discord.com/channels/897428802412613632/922913613369454622/975418884108742776

bug
The output of pmctl list sinks should be the normal json, but if there is a # in the description (would probably also apply to all other fields) then the shell scripts splits it as thinking it is a new index, which results in a broken json return.

file which runs this: main/scripts/pmctl

broken json

{
  "id": 49,
  "name": "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo",
  "description": "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo",
  "volume": 60
},
{
  "id": 835,
  "name": "alsa_output.usb-Astro_Gaming_Astro_A50-00.stereo-game",
  "description": "Astro A50 Game",
  "volume": 100
},
{
  "id": 836,
  "name": "alsa_output.usb-Astro_Gaming_Astro_A50-00.stereo-chat",
  "description": "Astro A50 Chat",
  "volume": 100
},
{
  "id": 1899,
  "name": "bluez_output.34_81_F4_F4_41_C9.a2dp-sink",
  "description": "SOUNDBOKS
},
{
  "id": 003110,
  "volume": 100
}

fixed json

{
  "id": 49,
  "name": "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo",
  "description": "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo",
  "volume": 60
},
{
  "id": 835,
  "name": "alsa_output.usb-Astro_Gaming_Astro_A50-00.stereo-game",
  "description": "Astro A50 Game",
  "volume": 100
},
{
  "id": 836,
  "name": "alsa_output.usb-Astro_Gaming_Astro_A50-00.stereo-chat",
  "description": "Astro A50 Chat",
  "volume": 100
},
{
  "id": 1899,
  "name": "bluez_output.34_81_F4_F4_41_C9.a2dp-sink",
  "description": "SOUNDBOKS #003110"
  "volume": 100
}

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Distro: Fedora 36
• audio Server: PipeWire
• Python Version: 3.10.4

Additional context
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[Fl1tzi]

Good news! With Pulseaudio 16.0, pactl finally supports directly outputting json which would not break this. That would fix this for system with an updated Pulseaudio version.

[theRealCarneiro]

As Pulseaudio 16.0 is not yet released in most distros, I wrote a wrapper to JSON myself, so closing this