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In a message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:44:00 GMT
Received on 12 Nov 1992, 00:17 GMT

fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu wrote
to: Text Processing Utility (TPU) Language Discussion List <INFO-TPU@SHSU.edu>

>    All this discussion about matching up delimiters brought to mind a
>case I don't think is handled by any of the procedures posted: has
>anyone thought about the problem of, for example, matching opening and
>closing comment delimitors in C?
>
>	/* Hi! I'm a comment, what are you? */
>
>I've thought of two possiblities:
>
>    1) Create an _array_ of left-delimitors and an array of
>       right-delimitors with each array entry being a string
>       of arbitrary length.  You might need to order the array
>       elements so as to check the multi-character delimiters
>       before the single character ones if the multi's included
>       characters in the single-character set...
>
>    2) Use SELECT to highlight a string of characters, then do
>       a "MATCH SELECTED".  Eve_Match_Selected would extract the
>       selected string of characters and reverse them to form the
>       match delimiter string.  Problem here is you don't know
>       whether to search FORWARD or REVERSE sine there is no
>       intrinsic left- or rightness to the strings.
>
>Comments?

Well, yes.  The idea with an array sounds good and could be extended to
look for \begin{array} \end{array} etc.  But then the SELECT stuff
wouldn't work.  Would make an interesting LaTeX mode.



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Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])