Issue 6538, 6781 - Implement script parsing for snippets

lib/snippets.js

Index: lib/snippets.js
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--- a/lib/snippets.js
+++ b/lib/snippets.js
@@ -74,8 +74,68 @@
         result.push(filter);
       }
     }
     return result;
   }
 };
 
 exports.Snippets = Snippets;
+
+/**
+ * Parses a script and returns a list of all its commands and their arguments
+ * @param {string} script
+ * @return {Array.<string[]>}
+ */
+function parseScript(script)
+{
+  const singleCharacterEscapes = new Map([
+    ["n", "\n"], ["r", "\r"], ["t", "\t"]
+  ]);
+
+  let tree = [];
+
+  let escape = false;
+  let literal = false;
+
+  let call = [];
+  let argument = "";
+
+  for (let character of [...script.trim(), ";"])
+  {
+    if (escape)
+    {
+      escape = false;
+
+      argument += singleCharacterEscapes.get(character) || character;
+    }
+    else if (character == "\\")
+    {
+      escape = true;
+    }
+    else if (character == "'")
+    {
+      literal = !literal;
+    }
+    else if (literal || character != ";" && !/\s/u.test(character))
+    {
+      argument += character;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      if (argument)
+      {
+        call.push(argument);
+        argument = "";
+      }
+
+      if (character == ";" && call.length > 0)
+      {
+        tree.push(call);
+        call = [];
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return tree;
+}
+
+exports.parseScript = parseScript;