lib/parameters/options.rb in parameters-0.4.3 vs lib/parameters/options.rb in parameters-0.4.4

@@ -207,12 +207,16 @@
     OptionParser.accept(Symbol, /[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]*/) do |s,|
       s.to_sym if s
     end
 
     # accept pattern for Hashes
-    OptionParser.accept(Hash, /[^\s:]*:[^\s:]*(\s+[^\s:]*:[^\s:])*/) do |s,|
+    OptionParser.accept(Hash, /((?:\\.|[^\\:])*):((?:\\.|[^\\:])*)/) do |s,k,v|
       if s
-        Hash[s.split.map { |key_value| key_value.split(':',2) }]
+        unescape = lambda { |string|
+          string.gsub(/\\./) { |match| match[1,1] }
+        }
+
+        {unescape[k] => unescape[v]}
       end
     end
 
   end
 end