{"record":{"id":"9b9f9fae51ac889d","repo":"sqlmapproject/sqlmap","slug":"something-went-wrong-during-command-line-parsing","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"something went wrong during command line parsing ('%s')","messagePattern":"something went wrong during command line parsing \\('(.+?)'\\)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"SqlmapSyntaxException","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"lib/parse/cmdline.py","lineNumber":1094,"sourceCode":"                    clearHistory()\n                    dataToStdout(\"[i] history cleared\\n\")\n                    saveHistory(AUTOCOMPLETE_TYPE.SQLMAP)\n                elif command.lower() in (\"x\", \"q\", \"exit\", \"quit\"):\n                    raise SqlmapShellQuitException\n                elif command[0] != '-':\n                    if not re.search(r\"(?i)\\A(\\?|help)\\Z\", command):\n                        dataToStdout(\"[!] invalid option(s) provided\\n\")\n                    dataToStdout(\"[i] valid example: '-u http://www.site.com/vuln.php?id=1 --banner'\\n\")\n                else:\n                    saveHistory(AUTOCOMPLETE_TYPE.SQLMAP)\n                    loadHistory(AUTOCOMPLETE_TYPE.SQLMAP)\n                    break\n\n            try:\n                for arg in shlex.split(command):\n                    argv.append(getUnicode(arg, encoding=sys.stdin.encoding))\n            except ValueError as ex:\n                raise SqlmapSyntaxException(\"something went wrong during command line parsing ('%s')\" % getSafeExString(ex))\n\n        longOptions = set(re.findall(r\"\\-\\-([^= ]+?)=\", parser.format_help()))\n        longSwitches = set(re.findall(r\"\\-\\-([^= ]+?)\\s\", parser.format_help()))\n\n        for i in xrange(len(argv)):\n            # Reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-\n            argv[i] = re.sub(u\"\\\\A(\\u2010|\\u2013|\\u2212|\\u2014|\\u4e00|\\u1680|\\uFE63|\\uFF0D)+\", lambda match: '-' * len(match.group(0)), argv[i])\n\n            # Reference: https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/\n            argv[i] = argv[i].strip(u\"\\u00AB\\u2039\\u00BB\\u203A\\u201E\\u201C\\u201F\\u201D\\u2019\\u275D\\u275E\\u276E\\u276F\\u2E42\\u301D\\u301E\\u301F\\uFF02\\u201A\\u2018\\u201B\\u275B\\u275C\")\n\n            if argv[i] == \"-hh\":\n                argv[i] = \"-h\"\n            elif i == 1 and re.search(r\"\\A(http|www\\.|\\w[\\w.-]+\\.\\w{2,})\", argv[i]) is not None:\n                argv[i] = \"--url=%s\" % argv[i]\n            elif len(argv[i]) > 1 and all(ord(_) in xrange(0x2018, 0x2020) for _ in ((argv[i].split('=', 1)[-1].strip() or ' ')[0], argv[i][-1])):\n                dataToStdout(\"[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) quote characters from Internet is illegal (%s)\\n\" % argv[i])\n                raise SystemExit","sourceCodeStart":1076,"sourceCodeEnd":1112,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/blob/0a35b20e3953d341be6c7ac75ccb0b3362540c8d/lib/parse/cmdline.py#L1076-L1112","documentation":"Error \"something went wrong during command line parsing ('%s')\" thrown in sqlmapproject/sqlmap.","triggerScenarios":"Thrown at lib/parse/cmdline.py:1094 when the library encounters an invalid state.","commonSituations":"See trigger scenarios.","solutions":[],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":null,"validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":null,"preventionTips":[],"tags":[],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"0a35b20e3953d341be6c7ac75ccb0b3362540c8d","analyzedAt":"2026-08-26T23:02:52.002Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-27T03:17:27.898Z"}