Convert ANSI-C quoted strings to their value
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Description
This makes sense:
> yargs.parse('echo --data "\\n"');
{ _: [ 'echo' ], data: '\\n', '$0': '' }
> yargs.parse("echo --data '\\n'");
{ _: [ 'echo' ], data: '\\n', '$0': '' }
This could be better:
> yargs.parse("echo --data $'\\n'");
{ _: [ 'echo' ], data: "$'\\n'", '$0': '' }
In bash, strings of the form $'string' are a special type of string:
$ echo $'some\\ntext'
some\ntext
$ echo 'some\\ntext'
some\\ntext
See https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#ANSI_002dC-Quoting
It would be helpful if yargs returned the raw value for these types of strings as well, instead of making the user parse it themselves.
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Research direction
Start at the yargs.parse entry point and compare its handling of the provided double-quoted, single-quoted, and ANSI-C quoted examples. Use the linked Bash ANSI-C Quoting reference to define the expected conversion, while preserving existing quoted-string behavior. Done means $'...' values are returned in their interpreted form rather than requiring callers to parse them.
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