[ragel-users] properties list

[Adrian Thurston]

Torsten Curdt wrote:
> 
> One thing that still seems problematic are escaped quotes though.
> 
>  "this here \"test\" is a"

key = '" ( [^\\"] | '\\' any )* '"';

> Cool, I came up with something very similar. But now I have changed it to
> 
>   comment_c = "/*" @comment ((any @comment_append)* - (any* "*/" any*)) "*/";
>   comment_cpp = "//" @comment (any - "\n")* @comment_append "\n";
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> It just seems that my @comment_append method is not positioned correctly.
> I am still getting a trailing "*" for the "comment_c". Not sure I
> understand why.

Go further into the chapter. These can simplify to:

comment_c = '/*' any* :>> '*/';
comment_cpp = '//' any * :> '*/';

> Sounds like converting UTF16 -> UTF8 and then use the proper byte
> sequences might be a little easier.
> I found the character sequence definitions here:
> 
>  http://git.wincent.com/wikitext.git?a=blob;f=ext/wikitext_ragel.rl
> 
> Is there any other example available somewhere?

If you haven't seen it already, look at the ruby script in contrib. It 
is relevant.


Regards,
  Adrian