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Seeting <skip: ... > is exactly the way to handle this. It stays set through all invoked rules as well.

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Re^2: Handling newlines in P::RD
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 15, 2004 at 18:23 UTC
    Just to clarify for the OP, "It stays set through all invoked rules as well" means if you place it in your start rule, it'll affect all your rules.
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      Thanks, this is the approach I've eventually taken. Still, looking at my grammar and at the attemps I did trying stuff, it's clear that P::RD has an issue with line-oriented input. It's possible, but adds difficulties, mainly because its default "skippable" chars include a newline.

      This can be trivially solved with a tiny bit of preprocessing, but I tried a pure P::RD approach.

      To conclude - it works, it even looks clean enough and not *too* complicated.

      Thanks for the feedback !

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