[Feature]: solve yargs issue where it drops leading and trailing double quotes in a string

[jchenche]

Describe the feature you would like

Have yargs preserve leading and trailing double quotes inside a string. Look at issue yargs/yargs-parser#201 and solve it by forking the repository and make a pull request for it. https://github.com/yargs/yargs/blob/main/docs/tricks.md#quotes might be a good read before attempting to solve it.

e.g. '"hello"' should be '"hello"' after processing it with yargs. But currently, it yields 'hello' (double quotes gone).

Is this feature solving a problem?

It prevents yargs from throwing away leading and trailing double quotes so that we don't have to hack around the library.

Please share any additional details you have?

Currently the hack is in 2 places.

inputArgs = inputArgs.map(arg => arg.match(/^"(.|\n)*"$/) ? "___" + arg + "___" : arg) from cli.ts

and

if (typeof val === 'string' && val.match(/^___(.|\n)*___$/)) val = val.slice(3, -3) from plugins.ts

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[hu3man]

Closing: fixed