Opening a file that has spaces in its name on the CLI does not work on Windows

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Reproduce the issue on Windows using the two command forms shown in the report, then trace the CLI argument handling for file paths. Done means that a quoted path containing spaces opens successfully through binaryninja.exe without breaking the existing unquoted-path behavior.

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Description

Component: Core Effort: Low Impact: Medium

binaryninja.exe C:\Users\xxxx\helloworld.exe works as expected, but binaryninja.exe C:\Users\xxxx\hello world.exe does not. Even if it is properly quoted like binaryninja.exe "C:\Users\xxxx\hello world.exe", it still does not work

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