From 74a34261ab88988e311f24e58f3744c483b4b518 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Zimmerle <felipe@zimmerle.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:11:49 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Adds function removeBracketsIfNeeded to utils

---
 src/utils.cc | 8 ++++++++
 src/utils.h  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/utils.cc b/src/utils.cc
index 3c3e89da..f409e66f 100644
--- a/src/utils.cc
+++ b/src/utils.cc
@@ -133,6 +133,14 @@ int urldecode_nonstrict_inplace(unsigned char *input,
 }
 
 
+std::string removeBracketsIfNeeded(std::string a) {
+    if ((a.at(0) == '"') and (a.at(a.length()-1) == '"')) {
+        a.pop_back();
+        a.erase(0, 1);
+    }
+    return a;
+}
+
 
 std::vector<std::string> split(std::string str, char delimiter) {
     std::vector<std::string> internal;
diff --git a/src/utils.h b/src/utils.h
index beac334f..60cc6023 100644
--- a/src/utils.h
+++ b/src/utils.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ namespace modsecurity {
     std::vector<std::string> expandEnv(const std::string& var, int flags);
     std::string find_resource(const std::string& file,
         const std::string& param);
+    std::string removeBracketsIfNeeded(std::string a);
 }  // namespace modsecurity