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Single Lined Comments With Ending Characters - Grammar Question [message #1805086]

Fri, 05 April 2019 13:40

Ja Mcco

Messages: 1
Registered: April 2019

Junior Member

Hello All!

I am looking to do something like this:

// Commented text **
// Commented text -
// Commented text +

I am running into an issue with having ending characters with single line comments.

The valid ending characters are **, -, + I'm just looking to classify comments in a specific way.

There will be in a terminal fragment for the ending would look like:

terminal fragment ENDING:
('+' | '-' | '**' );

The following is the closest I can get to what I am looking for. I have tried a lot of alternatives that follow this logic.

terminal COMMENT:
	
	 ('//'  !('\n'|'\r')*  ENDING ('r'? '\n' )?;

Everything works until you add a space or tab after the comment. I don't want to include this in the terminal rule because I will have unnecessary white space on the end of the comment. I don't want to have to trim the string every time.

I essentially want to capture the comments as everything from '//' to an ENDING and not allow new lines. Also anything beyond the ENDING should not be stored so I can avoid trimming every time.

// Commented text +

I hope I explained the question well enough, thanks to anyone who helps out!

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