Re: Indenting Based on Unbalanced Paranthesis

On Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:24:53 PM UTC-6, Danny Gratzer wrote:
> I am writing an indentation script for a simple language. The language is has very simple constructs and the indentation really only has 3 rules:
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> 1. A comment has goes from a // until a newline, anything in a comment should be ignored.
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> 2. If the line above contains a semi-colon, the indentation should be 0.
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> 3. Otherwise, indent to 1 more than the most recent unbalanced ( and to 4 spaces if all paranthesis are balanced.
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> The last rule is kinda stumping me, does anyone have any advice?
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I'd try using the searchpair() or searchpairpos() functions for an exact solution which works in all cases.

Or a simpler solution might just check the previous line for an opening (, but this will be hard to get right for nested parentheses groups.

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