[SimpleParse] RE: More Simpleparse advice

[Paul P. <pau...@ho...>]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> 
> Paul Paterson wrote:
>
> >
> >... And <a bad line here> doesn't parse, then the "line" 
> doesn't match 
> >and so I get a report that the "sub_definition" doesn't 
> match. This is 
> >entirely correct, but quite hard for the end-user to work 
> out what is 
> >going wrong in a long subroutine.
> >
> You are probably looking for a construct like so:
>     block := blockstart, !, blockcontent?, blockend
> 
> or more concretely...
> 
>     ifblock := 'If', condition, !, blockcontent, 'End',ts,'If'
> 
> That is, once you hit a block-start, you must hit a block-end 
> or there's 
> a syntax error, so you include the cut and a syntax error 
> will be raised 
> when the system can't find the rest of the construct.  

This is exactly what I was looking for! Many thanks again!

Paul