apsw shell doesn't understand commented out queries

[phdru]

$ apsw database.sqlite 
SQLite version 3.8.7.1 (APSW 3.8.6-r1)
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> SELECT * FROM sqlite_master;
…output…
sqlite> -- SELECT * FROM sqlite_master;
    ..> ;
sqlite> 

Ouch!

This is important because I have commented out queries in .sqliterc and apsw shell has problems reading them.

[rogerbinns]

This is because I use sqlite3_complete to tell if there is complete input and it says no when there is a comment. The sqlite shell doesn't have the same problem so I need to investigate what they do differently.

[rogerbinns]

The SQLite shell does it's own parsing which is how it avoids this problem.

[phdru]

The SQLite shell does it's own parsing which is how it avoids this problem.

I see. Thanks!

[rogerbinns]

Forum post asking for SQLite changes: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/666f572d3c

I can't think of another way around this, short of writing a SQL parser to figure it out just like the shell did. A pure comment statement can be detected by sqlite3_prepare returning NULL, but it is easy to get outfoxed eg with SELECT 3; /* unterminated comment