Re: [Spirit-general] skip parser

[Joel de G. <jo...@bo...>]

Alan LaViolette wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am using spirit to parse a custom language I am working on.   I am 
> having trouble with one small thing.  The skip parser is consuming a 
> white space I need.  The line of text is like this
> 
> "Text line $var$ rest of text"
> 
> The skip parser gets the space after the second $
> 
> My grammar is like this.  or at least the important bits.
> 
> RAWTEXT =
>    lexeme_d[(*(str_p(L"$$") | anychar_p - SUB_TAG))]
> 
> VAR =
>    chlit<>('$')
>    >> lexeme_d[((alpha_p | L'_') >> *(alnum_p | L'_' | L'?' | L'@'))
>    >> chlit<>('$')
> 
> Does anyone know how to get my white space back?

I think this is a case where it's better to work at the character level.
If not, you can add a >> *space_p inside your lexeme_d to make sure that
it takes over the trailing spaces.

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