Re: Regex Strikes again!

You are slurping in the file in one go, due to your setting of $/ to undef. That means <F> is going to return a single string, the content of the entire file. Which means that if the file contains a C or C++ style comment, or a single or double quoted string, that single string is passed to map. The map makes a two element list out of this, the first element the line number of the last "line" of the file - it this case 1, as there is only one line. So, you get a one-key hash, with key 1, and value the entire content of the file.

The problem you are working on is a bit more complicated than what you can do in a simple regexp.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Regex Strikes again! by nofernandes (Beadle) on Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07 UTC
Hmm.. i see.. your rigth! But can i put this condition in while cicle!!? I guess not because in that case i could not catch multiline comments!! Because in this case the file would be read line by line! And i must read all the file at once! Don´t i? Thank you again	[reply]
Re: Regex Strikes again! by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 16, 2003 at 11:09 UTC
Put which condition in which while cycle? There's no while in your code fragment. Which part of "what you are trying to do is to complex for a simple regexp" do you fail to understand? I've said this before, what you need is a parser, nor a regexp. For simple languages like Java, you can get away with a parser that's not a full-language parser. I told you this three weeks ago, but you still are on the regexp road, and have made remarkably little progress. Don't match - parse! Abigail	[reply]