This code got shuffled around over the years but fundamentally it was
first introduced in 2c22fcd350 to fix a
parsing issue with specifically the af and vf options. Syntax like af*
and vf* used to be valid and this was part of dealing with that case.
Later 50008adf4a completely changed this
and ripped out support for the wildcard behavior. But these few lines to
deal with the special case were never removed. The token splitting has
been unnecessary for years and is confusing, so clean this up and
finally remove it.
Dudemanguy
5c4c27e6b1