[ragel-users] Need Help on Backward Reference concept of Regular Expression in Ragel Language

[Adrian Thurston]

Hi Hardik,

There is no inbuilt support for back references. What you'll have to do 
is to capture the text of the back reference, then in the place where 
you wish the back reference to appear give a pattern that subsumes the 
back reference, and then test the strings at runtime using a call to 
strcmp in a condition.

-Adrian

Hardik Parikh wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I want to use backward reference in ragel regular expression for 
> creating parser for my language. The requirement is kind of begining and 
> end of tag matching where tag can be any arbitary string. e.g
> 
> 1./test/ this is sample /test/
> 
> or it can be
> 
> 2./hello/ this is test /hello/
> 
> and following can be consider as a invalide
> 
> 3./abc/ this is invalid /xyz/
> 
> So as in above example tag can be any arbitary string but requirement is 
> to match begining and ending tag string should be same. To write regular 
> expression for above requirement in ragel language i want to use 
> backward reference as in javascript. So can somebody give valuable 
> suggestion how can we achieve it in ragel or any pointer related to same 
> would be great help
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Hardik Parikh
> 
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