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Small problem in the PHP highlighter - how to fix?

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Posted 16 years ago by Kasper
Version: 4.0.0271
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Hi,

Quick steps to reproduce this issue: Open the SDI sample app, change the language to PHP and paste the following lines: 

// Hello
        
// This is a test
Now select Tools -> Highlighting style editor. For "Comment Default", change the background to a color that can actually be seen, e.g. blue. You will now see that the empty line between the two comment lines gets the same background color, but this is actually a bug, since // means singleline comments. This seems to work just fine with the C# highlighter, but I can't seem to figure out what makes the difference. What can I change to make this work properly with PHP? :)

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Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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This is due to all the single comment lines being grouped into one large state in the language definition. If you remove this line from the comment state you can get it how you want: 

<RegexPatternGroup TokenKey="CommentLineTerminatorToken" PatternValue="{LineTerminatorMacro}" LookAhead="{LineTerminatorWhitespaceMacro}* // [^/]" IsWhitespace="True" />

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Posted 16 years ago by Kasper
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Okay. Are there no downsides to doing that? As far as I remember, the C# has a line like that as well?
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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It shouldn't affect anything adversely. Alternatively you could change that pattern to look for a single line terminator followed by {WhitespaceMacro}*. That will not let the blank line be a continuation.

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Posted 16 years ago by Kasper
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Could you please provide me with a modified version of the pattern node with that change? I would hate to mess this up my self haha :)
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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<RegexPatternGroup TokenKey="CommentLineTerminatorToken" PatternValue="{LineTerminatorMacro}" LookAhead="{WhitespaceMacro}* // [^/]" IsWhitespace="True" />

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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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