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Re^2: Random Tips on Parse::RecDescentby Anonymous Monk
|on Apr 27, 2012 at 10:53 UTC||Need Help??|
The example in random tip #16 does not explicitly spell out that you need to :use Text::DelimMatch;
and in the grammar definition you need a rule :newline: "\n"
With those two things in place the code works fine for parsing multi line HTML comments.
Parsing multi line C style comments is complicated by the fact that * is a regexp character so it needs escaping. I managed to get the following code to work OK based on technique outlined in the tip. I'm sure it could be done better but I was struggling with the escaping
and the grammar rules :
Successfully matches the following example :
Hope this may help someone