[ragel-users] Re: Action at the Beginning of Starred Expression

[Adrian Thurston]

Hey Manfred,

So you can't write something like:

e=(ax >action)*y;

?

What do you know about e? If you know that a only occurs at the start you
can write:

e | (any | a at action)*;

-Adrian

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Manfred_Nowak wrote:

>
> > Depending on the placement of the >{} action it is either
> > executed every time a is found or only on the first a.
>
> Arne, thank you for this suggestion, but it requires to know about the
> decomposition of `e', which I gave for explanation only.
>
> I understand Adrian's design decision, for excluding by default the
> start state of a machine from some inner loops, as your example shows.
> But your example also shows, that you also seems to be unaware of a
> possibility to overwrite this default.
>
> I need to overwrite this default, because I want to use ragel as a
> code generator and I do not know about the composition of the regular
> expression in general. Of course I can decompose it in a preprocessing
> step :-(
>
> -manfred
> >