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     continuation prompt.
 <li>Dot-commands do not recognize comments.
 </ul>
 
 <p>The arguments passed to dot-commands are parsed from the command tail, 
-per these rules: Arguments are delimited by whitespace (excluding newline); 
-Text bounded by a pair of single-quotes or double-quotes is treated as a 
-single argument, with the quotes stripped.
-Within a double-quoted argument, traditional C-string literal, 
-backslash escape sequence translation is done.
+per these rules:<br>
+(1) The trailing newline and any other trailing whitespace is discarded;<br>
+(2) Whitespace immediately following the dot-command name or an argument
+input end bound is discarded;<br>
+(3) An argument input begins with any non-whitespace character;<br>
+(4) An argument input end bound depends upon its leading character thusly:<br>
+&nbsp;(4.a) for a leading single-quote ('), a single-quote acts
+as the end bound;<br>
+&nbsp;(4.b) for a leading double-quote ("), a unescaped double-quote
+ acts as the end bound;<br>
+&nbsp;(4.c) for any other leading character, the end bound is
+ any whitespace; and<br>
+&nbsp;(4.d) the command tail end acts as the end bound for any argument;<br>
+(5) Within a double-quoted argument input, a backslash-escaped double-quote
+ is part of the argument rather than its terminating quote;<br>
+(6) Within a double-quoted argument, traditional C-string literal, backslash
+ escape sequence translation is done; and<br>
+(7) for quote-bounded argument inputs, the bounding quotes are stripped.<br>
 
 <p>The dot-commands
 are interpreted by the sqlite3.exe command-line program, not by
 SQLite itself.  So none of the dot-commands will work as an argument
 to SQLite interfaces like [sqlite3_prepare()] or [sqlite3_exec()].