Problem with GoToPreviousNonWhitespaceOrCommentToken()

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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
Version: 12.1.0303
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My dynamic language file contains the following:

<RegexPatternGroup TokenID="1" TokenKey="LineEnd" PatternValue="{LineTerminatorMacro}" IsWhitespace="True" />
<RegexPatternGroup TokenID="3" TokenKey="Whitespace" PatternValue="{WhitespaceMacro}+" IsWhitespace="True" />

I have the following text in the syntax editor:

Select abc

My code does the following:

Dim ts As TextStream = editor.Document.GetTextStream(8)
>>> ts.ParserText is 'abc' << correct
ts.GoToPreviousNonWhitespaceOrCommentToken()
>>> ts.ParserText is ' ' << incorrect

Since I am telling it to skip whitespace it should be pointing to tokenIndex 0 ('Select') not to tokenIndex 1 (' ').

Is there something I need to set in order to force it to honor the NOT whitespace or Comments part of this function?

 

Just as an aside...

What is the simplest way to create a TextStream that is pointing to the current cursor position?

Comments (5)

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Mike,

I'm not sure, I'd think it would work based on what you have.  If you want to make a new simple sample project and email that to our support address, we can debug it.  Please rename the .zip file extension so it doesn't get spam blocked.

We usually get the stream like:

syntaxEditor.Document.GetTextStream(syntaxEditor.Caret.Offset)


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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
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I have sent a small demo app to support@actiprosoftware.com.

Answer - Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Mike,

Thanks for the sample.  The problem was introduced in the prior build where CharClass was restructured to support Unicode categories.  There was one location in our lexer code that needed to handle things differently if a Unicode category was used (as it is now with WhitespaceMacro).

If you change your usage of {WhitespaceMacro} to be a manually specified class instead like [ \t] etc. then it should work around the problem until we get the next maintenanace release with the fix out.  Then you can restore what you have.


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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
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I can get it to work if I use Explicit pattern groups as in:

<ExplicitPatternGroup TokenID="3" TokenKey="Whitespace" PatternValue=" " IsWhitespace="True" />
<ExplicitPatternGroup TokenID="3" TokenKey="Whitespace" PatternValue="&#x9;" IsWhitespace="True" />

But I have tried a number of variations of RegEx patterns and none of those seem to work.
eg. "\s+", "[\t\x20]+", "[\x20&#x9;]+"

The only problem with using Explicit groups is that we will end up with more tokens since strings of spaces or tabs will be broken up into multiple tokens.

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Mike,

Did you try "[ \t]+" as a pattern (note the space in there)?


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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