[ragel-users] Ignoring whitespace

Michael Conrad silverdirk-rgl at silverdirk.com
Fri Apr 12 13:55:24 UTC 2013


On 04/09/2013 07:30 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> What I am having trouble with is so simple, I just want to ignore 
> whitespace, so whitespace may serve to seperate symbols. Is there an 
> easy way to do this, other than just adding space* all over the grammar?
>

You can always pre-process your buffer, converting all runs of 
whitespace to a single space character.  That will make the required 
machine smaller.  Written in C, it might even be a speed improvement.

-Mike

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