Changed Internal representation of quoted string literals to be an instance of \Handlebars\String instead of strangely quoted string.

src/Handlebars/Context.php

@@ -225,12 +225,8 @@ class Context
             $current = $this->lastIndex();    
         } elseif ($variableName == '@key') {
             $current = $this->lastKey();
-        } elseif ($variableName[0] == "'" || $variableName[0] == '"') {
+        } elseif ($variableName instanceof \Handlebars\String){
-            if ($variableName[0] == substr($variableName, -1) && strlen($variableName) > 2) {
+            $current = (string)$variableName;
-                $current = substr($variableName, 1, strlen($variableName) -2);
-            } else {
-                throw new \RuntimeException("Malformed string: ".$variableName);
-            }
         } else {
             $chunks = explode('.', $variableName);
             foreach ($chunks as $chunk) {

src/Handlebars/Template.php

@@ -430,10 +430,23 @@ class Template
      */
     public function parseArguments($string)
     {
-        $parts = array();
+        $args = array();
-        preg_match_all('#(?<!\\\\)("|\')(?:[^\\\\]|\\\\.)*?\1|\S+#s', $string, $parts);
+        preg_match_all('#(?<!\\\\)("|\')(?:[^\\\\]|\\\\.)*?\1|\S+#s', $string, $args);
-        $parts =  isset($parts[0])?$parts[0]:array();
+        $args =  isset($args[0])?$args[0]:array();
-        $parts = array_map("stripcslashes", $parts);
+        
-        return $parts;
+        for($x=0, $argc = count($args); $x<$argc;$x++){
+            // check to see if argument is a quoted string literal
+            if ($args[$x][0] == "'" || $args[$x][0] == '"'){
+                if ($args[$x][0] === substr($args[$x], -1)){
+                    // remove enclosing quotes and unescape
+                    $args[$x] = new \Handlebars\String(stripcslashes(substr($args[$x], 1, strlen($args[$x]) -2)));
+                } else {
+                    throw new \RuntimeException("Malformed string: ".$args);
+                }
+            }
+            
+        }
+
+        return $args;
     }
 }

tests/Xamin/HandlebarsTest.php

@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ class HandlebarsTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                 '{{data.length}}',
                 array("data"=> (object)array(1,2,3,4)),
                 ''
+            ),
+            array(
+                '{{data.length}}',
+                array("data"=>array("length"=>"15 inches", "test","test","test")),
+                "15 inches"
             )
         );
     }
@@ -473,4 +478,55 @@ class HandlebarsTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         );
     }
     
+    /**
+     * Test for proper handling of the length property
+     **/
+    public function testArrayLengthEmulation(){
+        
+        $data = array("numbers"=>array(1,2,3,4),
+                      "object"=>(object)array("prop1"=>"val1", "prop2"=>"val2"),
+                      "object_with_length_property"=>(object)array("length"=>"15cm")
+        );
+        $context = new \Handlebars\Context($data);
+        // make sure we are getting the array length when given an array
+        $this->assertEquals($context->get("numbers.length"), 4);
+        // make sure we are not getting a length when given an object
+        $this->assertEmpty($context->get("object.length"));
+        // make sure we can still get the length property when given an object
+        $this->assertEquals($context->get("object_with_length_property.length"), "15cm");        
+    }
+    
+    public function argumentParserProvider(){
+        return array(
+                    array('arg1 arg2', array("arg1","arg2")),
+                    array('"arg1 arg2"', array("arg1 arg2")),
+                    array('arg1 arg2 "arg number 3"', array("arg1","arg2","arg number 3")),
+                    array('arg1 "arg\"2" "\"arg3\""', array("arg1",'arg"2', '"arg3"')),
+                    array("'arg1 arg2'", array("arg1 arg2")),
+                    array("arg1 arg2 'arg number 3'", array("arg1","arg2","arg number 3")),
+                    array('arg1 "arg\"2" "\\\'arg3\\\'"', array("arg1",'arg"2', "'arg3'"))
+        );
+    }
+    /**
+     * Test Argument Parser
+     *
+     * @param string $arg_string argument text
+     * @param array  $arg_ array data
+     *
+     * @dataProvider argumentParserProvider
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function testArgumentParser($arg_string, $expected_array){
+        $engine = new \Handlebars\Handlebars();
+        $template = new \Handlebars\Template($engine, null, null);
+        // get the string version of the arguments array
+        $args = $template->parseArguments($arg_string);
+        $args = array_map(function($a){ return (string)$a; }, $args);
+        $this->assertEquals($args, $expected_array);
+
+    }
+    
+    
+
 }