[ragel-users] Re: Newbie advice

[Adrian Thurston]

The easy ways are to use a scanner or to remove the unwanted dashes from
the buffer afterwards (you know they are always going to be there).

But it's also possible to design a state machine that doesn't add to the
buffer when it sees '-', but does so on following characters. See this
thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/ragel-users/browse_thread/thread/c3c9170bfccc0a90/#

Adrian

ddri... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  If I add an action to accumlate
> characters from the body of the section that, like this:
> 
>     section = (any_line - marker_line)* $onChar marker_line
> @onSection;
> 
> onChar still seems to get called for part of the marker line, i.e. for
> the '--', but not the final '\n'.  Or is there a better way to do the
> accumulation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Dave
> 
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