[Feature/Help Request] Add more items to function list for Windows batch files

bege10

Hi,
currently the function list shows only labels (:name) for batch files. I additionally need these items:

call
start
goto

My request is to have these items added to functionlist.xml.
Can someone help my with the code to do so myself in the meantime?
Thank you very much.

MAPJe71

I strongly advise against showing more then just functions/sub-routines (i.e. labels in batch files) in the FunctionList tree but considering the following …

CALL [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters]
CALL :label arguments

START ["title"] [start-arguments] [command/program] [parameters]

GOTO [:]label

… what parts of the commands would you like to show up in the tree?

guy038

Hello bege10,

To fully distinguish the different GOTO, CALL and START commands, of your batch file, I suppose that you need all the contents of the line, starting with these commands :-)

If so, here is, below, a batch parser, which should work nice !!

Open your active functionList.xml file
Change the present batch_label id parser contents by the parser, below :

<parser id=“batch_label” displayName=“BAT Label” commentExpr=“^[\t ](::|REM).?$”>
<function
mainExpr=“^[\t ]*\K.+?$”
displayMode=“$functionName”>
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr=“(call |goto |start |(?<=:)).+?$”/>
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>

Notes :

The commentExpr string is, either, the word REM or the symbol ::, preceded by possible leading space/tabulation characters and followed by any range, even null, or characters
Then, the mainExpr string, from which the different entities, to display in the FunctionList window, will be extracted, is any, non-null, range of characters, which follows possible leading space/tabulation characters ( and different from comment ranges ! )
Finally, the expr string is, either :
- The word call, goto or start, followed by a space and any non null range of characters
- Any non null range of characters, following a colon ( : )

IMPORTANT :

The functionList regex engine does NOT act as the Notepad++ one. By default, it considers that the dot meta-character ( . ) match, absolutely, any character ( standard or EOL ones )

But, as the Notepad++ regex engine does, it considers that the ^ and $ assertions stand for the beginning and the end of any line

So, when you want to match, from any location, all the remaining characters of a line, TWO syntaxes are possible :

.+?$ which matches any non-null range of any character, ( standard or EOL ones ), till the nearest EOL location, due to the lazy quantifier +?

OR

(?-s).+ which matches any non-null range of standard characters only, due to the in-line modifier (?-s)

Of course, if the range of characters may be a zero-length string, prefer the syntax .*?$ OR (?-s).*

Best Regards,

guy038