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My only point is that it is unexpected behaviour...

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  If Left($Recipient,1) = "#"
    $Recipient = Right($Recipient,Len($Recipient)-1)
  endif

#include "windows.h"
#include <iostream>
int main() {
	printf("%s",GetCommandLine());
}

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Are there more known 'irregularities' than the one that started this topic?

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If not, isn't 'correcting' just this one 'odd' behaviour relatively simple without introducing new stuff?

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If there are more issues than the trailing escape character issue than I'd go for leaving the current commandline parsing as it is and introduce the new @commandline macro as suggested by Ruud.

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PS.. just curious: is the problem in C/C++ in printf/cout or in argv?

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This issue specifically is in the handling of the command line arguments. The handling of strings by library functions like printf() is standardised and is not an issue (unless they are badly broken ).

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again.
fixing this issue is rather simple.
instead of using the args parsed for you, parse them yourself from the raw commandline.

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and richie, not sure I understand your flaming of MS here.

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you just posted a while ago that same issue is there with gcc.
last time I checked, it's not MS compiler.

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