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74 lines
3.3 KiB
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# xyntax
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xyntax -- Xolatile-style "header-only" library for syntax definition control.
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- Primary focus of this library is for syntax highlighting, hence the name...
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- Important note: Regular expressions are more robust, this is simple solution for simple problems.
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- Everything related to my libraries is clean of all warning options on Clang, GCC and Valgrind.
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Compile:
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```bash
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sh compile.sh
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```
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Install:
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```bash
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$ sudo sh install.sh
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```
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Usage:
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```c
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#include <xolatile/xyntax.h>
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#include <xolatile/xyntax.c> /* Instead of '#define BLA_BLA_IMPLEMENTATION' if you want to compile it all together. */
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int symbols = syntax_define (1, 0, ".,:;<=>+-*/%!&~^?|()[]{}", "", '\0', 0, 0);
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/* Variable 'symbols' will become the index of current 'syntax_count', and you can use it to count elements or select them without null-termination. */
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int select = syntax_select (& buffer [offset], & length);
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/* Variable 'select' will become the index of syntax rule you defined previously, or 'syntax_count' if there is no match. */
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```
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Xolatile-style "header-only" library is my take on 'stb' header-only libraries. There are a lot of ideas that came from Ada, which is my second language.
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Main idea behind them is to avoid standard library and macros in programs. Also, I like to avoid C-style "namespaces" and bad function names...
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It can be used for:
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- syntax highlighting in terminal or graphical text editors...
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- source code processing, parsing, tokenization...
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- counting source code elements such as keywords, literals, brackets...
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For example, your can make simple ANSI C syntax highlight like this:
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```c
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char * separators = ".,:;<=>+-*/%!&~^?|()[]{}'\" \t\r\n";
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char * keywords [] = {
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"register", "volatile", "auto", "const", "static", "extern", "if", "else",
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"do", "while", "for", "continue", "switch", "case", "default", "break",
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"enum", "union", "struct", "typedef", "goto", "void", "return", "sizeof",
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"char", "short", "int", "long", "signed", "unsigned", "float", "double"
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};
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int word;
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(void) syntax_define (0, 0, "#", "\n", '\\', COLOUR_PINK, EFFECT_BOLD);
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(void) syntax_define (0, 0, "//", "\n", '\0', COLOUR_GREY, EFFECT_BOLD);
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(void) syntax_define (0, 0, "/*", "*/", '\0', COLOUR_GREY, EFFECT_BOLD);
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(void) syntax_define (0, 0, "'", "'", '\0', COLOUR_RED, EFFECT_NORMAL);
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(void) syntax_define (0, 0, "\"", "\"", '\0', COLOUR_RED, EFFECT_BOLD);
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(void) syntax_define (1, 0, ".,:;<=>+-*/%!&~^?|()[]{}", "", '\0', COLOUR_CYAN, EFFECT_NORMAL);
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for (word = 0; word != (int) (sizeof (keywords) / sizeof (keywords [0])); ++word) {
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(void) syntax_define (0, 1, keywords [word], separators, '\0', COLOUR_BLUE, EFFECT_BOLD);
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}
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(void) syntax_define (1, 1, "0123456789", separators, '\0', COLOUR_CYAN, EFFECT_BOLD);
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(void) syntax_define (1, 1, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", separators, '\0', COLOUR_PINK, EFFECT_ITALIC);
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(void) syntax_define (1, 1, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", separators, '\0', COLOUR_WHITE, EFFECT_ITALIC);
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(void) syntax_define (0, 1, "_", separators, '\0', COLOUR_PINK, EFFECT_BOLD);
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```
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If you want to do parsing, counting, tokenization, you can use return value of 'syntax_define'...
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