java command line space & escape character parser for Runtime.exec

Hi all,

I'm trying to execute a string of command using Runtime.exec. This
string may contain space or other meta-charcters which has been
escaped. Does anyone know any tools out there does the parsing and
possibly put them into an array or in a collection for me?

i.e. on the extreme side, here is a possible string (assuming user
always uses double slashes)
"\"C:\\My Test\\my test batch.bat" argA \"arg B\" \"arg\ C\" \"arg\tD\"
\"arg \/E\""

This may or may not be an everyday usecase, but it does happens.

Does anyone out there know how java.exe parse the command line string
to a string array which then used by "static void main(String[] args)"?

Thank you guys!
Jimmy

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