Posted 20 years ago by shareeef
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Team,

Is there sample SyntaxEditor grammar to parse the Windows INI files. Is it easy to do something like the following?

[Section1]
Key1=Value1
Key2=Value2


[Section2]
Key1=Value1
Key3=Value3

Thanks a lot.

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Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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We don't have one defined right now but that would be very simple to create. I can add it to our TODO list. But if you make one first, send it over and maybe we can include it as a sample with our product.


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Posted 20 years ago by Steven Liu
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I happen to work with this type of format a lot. The trick is to look ahead to the next keyword. Here's a simple scope definition that may be a good starting point:

<Scope>
    <RegexPatternGroup Type="StartScope" Token="SectionStartToken" Style="SectionWordStyle" PatternValue="\[SECTION\d*\]" LookAhead="{NonWordMacro}" CaseSensitivity="Insensitive" />
    <RegexPatternGroup Type="EndScope" Token="SectionEndToken" Style="DefaultStyle" PatternValue="\n" LookAhead="[ \t\n]*\[SECTION\d*\]" CaseSensitivity="Insensitive" IsContentDivider="True" />
</Scope>
Hope it helps.

Also tech support answered quite a few question I asked recently regarding scopes without closing keywords. Browse thru the postings and you may find some useful info.

Steven Liu
Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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The next release now has an INI file definition.


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Posted 20 years ago by shareeef
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Quote:
<font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Actipro Software Support:
The next release now has an INI file definition.<HR>


Thanks for the quick response...BTW when is the next release? Thanks :-)
Posted 20 years ago by shareeef
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Thanks Steven for your help...
Posted 20 years ago by shareeef
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Quote:
<font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Actipro Software Support:
The next release now has an INI file definition.<HR>


The Better BNF for INI file is as follows:
file := [ \t\n]*, section+
section := '[',identifier,']', ts,'\n', body
body := statement*
statement := (ts,';',comment,'\n')/equality/nullline
nullline := ts,'\n'comment := -'\n'*
equality := ts, identifier,ts,'=',ts,identified,ts,'\n'
identifier := [a-zA-Z], [a-zA-Z0-9_]*
identified := ('"',string,'"')/number/identifier
ts := [ \t]*
char := -[\134"]+
number := [0-9eE+.-]+
string := (char/escapedchar)*
escapedchar := '\134"' / '\134\134'
Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Ours is pretty close to that. We plan on a release probably this week.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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