Extend IdentifierToken - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 19 years ago by Carl Gilbert

Hi

I have the following line in my language definition:

<RegexPatternGroup TokenKey="IdentifierToken" Style="VariableStyle" PatternValue="(_ | {AlphaMacro})({WordMacro})*" />

Is it possible to get code starting with a number or a single number to show up as an IdentifierToken?
So any of the following would show up as IdentifierTokens: 3, 4fds, fds3, 43re43, re34re

Note: I do not have a RealNumberToken or an IntegerNumberToken.

Also, how would this work is the token text has other characters such as: # - + £ $ % ^ etc.?
This last question isn't that important as I might just exclude the use of such characters.

Regards, Carl

Comments (1)

Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Absolutely... you can do almost anything with regular expressions.

Here's what you can use:

<RegexPatternGroup TokenKey="IdentifierToken" Style="VariableStyle" PatternValue="{WordMacro}+"/>

However WordMacro by default includes _ characters as well, which you may or may not want. If you don't want those, you can change it to something like:

<RegexPatternGroup TokenKey="IdentifierToken" Style="VariableStyle" PatternValue="({AlphaMacro} | {DigitMacro})+"/>

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 7 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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