Passing arguments with spaces in it to a subroutine

[Reino]

Hello,

I'm working with JSONs and I'm having trouble correctly passing these JSONs as arguments with spaces in it to a subroutine.
The following simple JSON, {"a": 1, "b": 2}, is working fine:

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SET json={^^^"a^^^": 1^^^, ^^^"b^^^": 2}

SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
CALL :Info "!json!"
ENDLOCAL
EXIT /B 0

:Info
ECHO %~1
EXIT /B

Output:

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{^"a^": 1^, ^"b^": 2}

So despite there being spaces between the attribute and value, this is no problem it seems.

The following simple JSON with spaces in the attribute's values, {"a": "a b c", "b": "x y z"}, is NOT working correctly:

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SET json={^^^"a^^^": ^^^"a b c^^^"^^^, ^^^"b^^^": ^^^"x y z^^^"}

SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
CALL :Info "!json!"
ENDLOCAL
EXIT /B 0

:Info
ECHO %~1
EXIT /B

Output:

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{^"a^": ^"a

Where as the expected/desired output was:

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{^"a^": ^"a b c^"^, ^"b^": ^"x y z^"}

I have also looked at ECHO %* which results in:

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"{^^"a": ^"a b c^"^, ^"b^": ^"x y z^"}"

It first of all quotes the entire string (sadly %~* doesn't work) and then strangely enough escapes only the first escape-character ( ^ ) and removes the second, but leaves the rest intact...

Does anyone know how I can have my script output the expected/desired output as shown above?

[jeb]

Your problem is, that the spaces are outside of quotes, because of doble quoting

call :info "!json!" -> call :info "{^"a^": ^"a b c^"^, ^"b^": ^"x y z^"}"

Only the red text is inside qotes, the rest is outside and the spaces are used as delimiters.

You could solve that with carets in front of some of the quotes, but that would be messy.

It's much simlper to transfer not the content to %1, instead transfer only the variable name!

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call :info json

:info
set "content=!%1!"
echo !content!

[Reino]

Thanks a lot for your input, jeb! Passing the variable name as argument is something I would've never come up with.

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SET json={^^^"a^^^": ^^^"a b c^^^"^^^, ^^^"b^^^": ^^^"x y z^^^"}

SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
CALL :Info json
ENDLOCAL
EXIT /B 0

:Info
ECHO !%1!
EXIT /B

Output:

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{^"a^": ^"a b c^"^, ^"b^": ^"x y z^"}