Re: [Pyparsing] C++ Comments and a Backslash at the End of the Line.

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Paul,

> > AIUI the // style of comment is terminated by 
> > the end of a line that is not preceeded with a backslash:
>
> Does this look better?
> 
> cppStyleComment =
>     Regex(r"(\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\/)|(\/\/(\\\n|.)*)").setName("C++ style comment")
> 
> It seems to test out okay.  I'll put it in the next update.

Yes, thanks.

Would you accept suggestions for equivalent regexps that execute faster?
I'm thinking of parsing many C++ files frequently and could use the
speed.

Cheers,


Ralph.