Language definition question - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 18 years ago by meathook - Genesys Telecommunications

I use the SyntaxEditor control in a development tool that uses an extended form of TCL. In a version 1.x language file, how do you support escaped newlines?

For example:

#set x 1 \
set y 2

would, according to my language file, treat the first line as a comment. This is due to the fact that TCL is a line delimited language. However, the parser treats the \ as an escape. Since the newline is next, it is escaped and the next line also is part of the comment.

I can provide my language file if necessary.

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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

If you do a regular expression it would probably be something like:
\\\n

Actipro Software Support

Posted 18 years ago by meathook - Genesys Telecommunications

As it is right now, I use the LineTerminatorMacro for my end of comment token. How could I modify this to ignore the escaped newline?

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

You have to add a token that consumes that end of line character. That's why adding one for \\\n would probably work.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 18 years ago by meathook - Genesys Telecommunications

Thanks for your help.

The latest build of this product (v22.1.3) was released 3 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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