Re: [Ctags] Looking for a volunteer to add support for Miva.

[Darren H. <da...@da...>]

Hello Bill,

Nothing stupid, except for an incorrect assumption of what style of  
regex is implemented. You used '\s' to represent white space, which  
is a Perl regex meta-character and not recognized by the "extended  
regular expressions" that ctags generally uses. The Windows version  
of regex is built using Gnu regex, which is a superset of extended  
regular expressions.

Replace the '\s' with a space or character class '[ 	]' (i.e. a space  
and tab character) and your regex works (I tested it).

For documentation on Gnu regex, see this page:

	<http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/regex/regex_toc.html>

If you really want Perl-style regex, there is a perl regex library  
out there with an interface that matches that of the standard regex  
library and ctags could be compiled with this.

Darren

On May 10, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Bill Guindon wrote:

> C:\Work\Boxer\Ctags>type ctags.cnf
> --langdef=miva
> --langmap=miva:.mv
> --regex-miva=/^\s*<MvFUNCTION\s+NAME\s*=\s*"([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)"/\1/ 
> f,function/
>
> C:\Work\Boxer\Ctags>type dump.txt
> !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT       2       /extended format; --format=1 will not
> append ;" to lines/
> !_TAG_FILE_SORTED       1       /0=unsorted, 1=sorted, 2=foldcase/
> !_TAG_PROGRAM_AUTHOR    Darren Hiebert  / 
> dhi...@us.../
> !_TAG_PROGRAM_NAME      Exuberant Ctags //
> !_TAG_PROGRAM_URL       http://ctags.sourceforge.net    /official  
> site/
> !_TAG_PROGRAM_VERSION   5.6     //
>
> Thanks again for your help.  Let me know if you see any obvious
> stupidity.

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Darren Hiebert
http://darrenhiebert.com