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RE: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:06:21 GMT
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Carsten wrote:
> i've written a little perl script, which removes white spaces and
> comments from a forth source code.
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Carsten,
This is a good start. Here's my comments on each of the regexp lines...
By the way, my Tcl script handles most of this stuff properly, but
I'm waiting until the new year to develop XMODEM uploads for it....
s/\\.*$//g; # remove \ commends
s/\(.*?\)//g; # remove ( ... )
- Except if comments are nested or a quoted string!!! Remember that
regexps are greedy, they find the LONGEST match. If you have, say...
( some comment string ) CODE IS HERE ( more comments )
then the entire string is removed..
s/^\s*//g; # remove leading whitespaces ( \t\r\n\f)
s/\s+$//g; # remove trailing whitespaces ( \t\r\n\f)
You might want to remove any sequence of one or more whitespace chars
unless they are inside quotes, of course...
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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 | | Re: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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| (...) Your statement of the LONGEST match may be correct for TCL but not for perl! look at the second regexp: the '?' inside means expand to the smallest match ( this is a perl specialty i think) the only thing is, if you nest comments like ( (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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| Hello, i've written a little perl script, which removes white spaces and comments from a forth source code. If called without any parameters, it reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT. If called with 1 parameter, this parameter is interpreted as an (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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