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Sat, 13 December 2014 01:37

Hocine ISSAOUN

Messages: 1
Registered: December 2014

Junior Member

Hello,

How can I define an xtext grammar for a language that have a continuation marker ?
In this language, all identifiers, strings or keywords and so on, can be split into two lines with a continuation marker in a given column.

Example:
in the BMS language an identifier for example can be split in two lines. the continuation character is * in the 72th column.
in tho following line the word IDENTIFIER is split into two lines. the first line contains the first part (IDENT) and finish with the continuation marker '*' in the 72th column and the second line containes the second part of the word (IFIER). This begin at the 6th column.

..............................................................IDENT*
IFIER

is it mendatory to perform this action to customize the lexer ? In this cas how can I easily modify the default lexer ?

Have an example that I can use ?

Thank you in advance.

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