Re: how to match a "," that IS NOT in comment

On 15/12/09 03:15, aj3423 wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to write a vim plugin that checks trailing
> comma for .js file, I'm using "match Error" when the buffer saves, but there
> is another function in the plugin:
> :vimgrep /the regex/ **/*.js
>
> so there should be a regex to fit these 2 functions.
>
> //Brs

The problem here is that there can be any number of lines between /* and
*/ -- for example, you might have /* at the start of line 1, then a
copyright statement and license agreement (in lawyers' English with
plenty of commas in it), then the closing */ on line 450; or the
description of a function (in programmers' English this time, but again
with plenty of commas in it), again occupying any number of lines with
/* on the first of them and */ on the last.

I don't see how to search any number of lines backwards and forwards for
/* and */ (aven assuming that you won't have such niceties as

function(arg1, "/*", arg2, "*/", arg3)

where the commas around arg2 are *not* in a comment), unless your script
can make good use of syntax functions such as synID(), synIDattr() and
synIDtrans() (q.v.).

Best regards,
Tony.
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