ColorizeScript challenge

[Tereza Snyder]

On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:



I got involved a bit yesterday too, and I found myself concentrating  
on the comments:


>>  put offset("#",tLine) into tOff1
>>     put offset("--",tLine) into tOff2
>>     if tOff1 > 0 or tOff2 > 0 then
>>       if tOff1 = 0 then
>>         put tOff2 into tOff1
>>       else if tOff2 = 0 then
>>         put tOff1 into tOff2
>>       end if
>>       put char min(tOff1,tOff2) to -1 of tLine into tComment
>>       delete char min(tOff1,tOff2) to -1 of tLine
>>     else
>>       put empty into tComment
>>     end if
>>

Did you know that "//" is a valid comment marker, too? Around 1997, I  
was grousing to Scott Raney about switching back and forth between C+ 
+ and MetaCard. He snuck the "//" comments in the next update where I  
discovered it by the usual accident.... no longer an error!


I gave up my comment fiddling - I'm under some project pressure - but  
I was testing by colorizing my test script, where I found that "--"  
and "#" in quotes were a real problem. Which of course brings up the  
whole issue of quoted strings containing keywords....

t


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