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    • EkopalypseE
      Ekopalypse
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      ooppps

      (?s)((<<)\h+(["|'])(\w+?)\3\h*;.*?\3)

      :-D

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      • Gilles MaisonneuveG
        Gilles Maisonneuve @Ekopalypse
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        • Gilles MaisonneuveG
          Gilles Maisonneuve @Ekopalypse
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          @Ekopalypse

          Ok
          another one: in Python you must say ["|'] instead of Perl ["'] (‘either one of the set’) ? Is that what it means ?

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            No, afaik non-capturing group is (?:pattern)
            This, (?s), just tells the engine that the dot . is matching
            EOLs like \r\n - if I’m right.

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Ekopalypse

              Just for clarification, the python script does NOT use the python regex engine instead
              it uses the one notepad++ offers, the boost::regex.
              Yes, you can use the enumeration without the pipe but makes it more visible for me with
              the pipe sign. Or is there a difference if used with pipe sign or without?

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse
                last edited by Ekopalypse

                or maybe this one might be even better
                (?s)(<<)\h+(["'])(\w+?)\2\h*;.*?\3

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                • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                  Gilles Maisonneuve
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                  Can’t reply what I wanted, a robot says I’m spamming…

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Gilles Maisonneuve
                    last edited by

                    @Gilles-Maisonneuve

                    Can’t reply what I wanted, a robot says I’m spamming…

                    I have no idea why this happens sometimes.

                    By the way, now that you have installed pythonscript plugin would you mind
                    clicking Plugins->Python Script->Scripts->Samples->RegexTester ?

                    I know not everyone is recommending it but, personally, I love it.

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                    • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                      Gilles Maisonneuve @Gilles Maisonneuve
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                      AFAIK, at least in Perl, ["|'] means double-quote OR pipre OR simple-quote, everything between square brakets is literal. Also true in “awk” and C regexp I think.
                      I don’t know for Python.

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                      • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                        Gilles Maisonneuve @Gilles Maisonneuve
                        last edited by

                        @Ekopalypse

                        Now, if I say in Pyhton (attempt to transliterate from Perl) :

                        (r'(?s)(\h*(<<)\h*["|']?([^"|^']+?)["|']?\h*;.*?\3)', [2])
                        

                        does it mean :

                        1. form REGEXP
                        2. do not match NL with DOT
                        3. matches any horizontal blanks (0 or more), don’t make a group
                        4. matches ‘<<’ make it a group
                        5. matches any horizontal blanks (0 or more), don’t make a group
                        6. matches 0 or 1 text quote (either double or single), no group
                        7. matches a group of any chars not " nor ’ one or more time(s) (in perl it would be [^"'])
                        8. matches 0 or 1 text quote (either double or single), no group
                        9. possible blanks until semi-colon, semi-colon, then possible chars until NL

                        BUT THEN, what does mean ?\3. I’m lost there.

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                        • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                          Gilles Maisonneuve @Gilles Maisonneuve
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                          a slash m

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse
                            last edited by Ekopalypse

                            the r at the beginning just informs python that this is a raw string and
                            every char must be taken literally otherwise backslashes would be treated
                            as escapes under some circumstances.

                            The regex string is only this part

                            (?s)(\h*(<<)\h*["|']?([^"|^']+?)["|']?\h*;.*?\3)
                            

                            and I would say, but as said - not an regex expert at all,

                            (?s) means Dot matches newline characters
                            the first matching group is

                            (\h*(<<)\h*["|']?([^"|^']+?)["|']?\h*;.*?\3)
                            

                            the second

                            (<<)
                            

                            and the third must be

                            ([^"|^']+?)
                            

                            if I’m right.

                            \3 should be the same as $3 in perl

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                            • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                              Gilles Maisonneuve @Ekopalypse
                              last edited by Gilles Maisonneuve

                              @Ekopalypse

                              still confused: ([^"|^']+?) why a ‘?’ after the ‘+’ what’s for this ‘?’

                              and then \3 would mean the 3rd matching group (third ‘()’) but in Perl is used only in subsitutions. What is the use here ? There are only 2 groups in the regex (two blocks surrounded by parenthèses only.

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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @Gilles Maisonneuve
                                last edited by

                                @Gilles-Maisonneuve

                                maybe this picture makes it a little bit clearer

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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @Gilles Maisonneuve
                                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                                  @Gilles-Maisonneuve

                                  still confused: ([^"|^']+?) why a ‘?’ after the ‘+’ what’s for this ‘?’

                                  as less as possible - non-greedy

                                  and then \3 would mean the 3rd matching group (third ‘()’) but in Perl is used only in >subsitutions. What is the use here ? There are only 2 groups in the regex (two blocks >surrounded by parenthèses only.

                                  placeholder for what was found in match group 3, to find the EOT at the end

                                  and there are 3 match groups or am I missing something??

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                                  • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                                    Gilles Maisonneuve @Ekopalypse
                                    last edited by

                                    @Ekopalypse

                                    2 sets of parenteses only, where is the third set ?
                                    so only 2 match groups

                                    can you make this work :

                                    no syntax error on the python console but absolutely no result, where is my bug ?

                                    regexes[(3, (255,255,255))] = (r'(?s)(\s*(<<)\s*("{0,1}.+"{0,1})\s*;.*?\3)', [1])
                                    
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                                    • EkopalypseE
                                      Ekopalypse @Gilles Maisonneuve
                                      last edited by Ekopalypse

                                      @Gilles-Maisonneuve

                                      [1] informs the python script, that only the results from sub match group 1 should be colored in white (255,255,255)
                                      sub match group 1 is the result of (<<)

                                      In order to make it painting all you can use [0]

                                      I’m still confused about the 2 to 3 match groups.
                                      Am I incorrect when saying that
                                      (\s*(<<)\s*("{0,1}.+"{0,1})\s*;.*?\3)
                                      (<<)
                                      ("{0,1}.+"{0,1})
                                      are three match groups?

                                      Maybe the confusion comes from the fact that references matches within a
                                      regular expression starts by 1 but python starts counting match results by 0.

                                      Sorry, but I have to stay up early tomorrow and it is already 1am but I’m really
                                      interested in solving our (mis)understanding today later (maybe in ~16-18hours)?

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                                      • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                                        Gilles Maisonneuve
                                        last edited by

                                        ok, tomorrow is another day
                                        ‘see’ you tomorrow.
                                        have a good night.
                                        g

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                                        • EkopalypseE
                                          Ekopalypse
                                          last edited by

                                          you too - see you

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                                          • Gilles MaisonneuveG
                                            Gilles Maisonneuve @Ekopalypse
                                            last edited by

                                            @Ekopalypse

                                            OK, so the

                                            (\s*(<<)\s*("{0,1}.+"{0,1})\s*;.*?\3)
                                            

                                            is a regex group, not a function call surrounded by parenthèses or a logical group provided by the ‘r’ keyword. My mistake.
                                            BUT THEN, it is possible in Python to enclose an instruction such as ?\3 which means (as far as I understood what you explained to me earlier) recursive reference to a regexp named ‘3’) ??? The ‘3’ name being given in the expression regexes[(3, (255,255,255))] is that correct ? SO you can reference an expression within itself while it has not be closed yet: the last parenthese of the expression 3 is after the \3). Is that what it means ?

                                            Python syntax is a bit complicated to me.

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