Regular expression, help needed

Jay Kickliter

I'm working on a Textmate bulde for the Prop, using bstc and bstl for compiling and loading. But I really suck at regular expressions. I'm chasing my tail on this bit here:

{	name = 'meta.method.spin';
	match = '^(?i)(pub|pri)\s*(\w+)\s*\|*\s*(\w+, )*';
	captures = {
		1 = { name = 'keyword.other.declaration.spin'; };
		2 = { name = 'entity.name.function.spin'; };
		3 = { name = 'storage.variable.local.spin'; };
	};
},

I can't figure out how to capture 0 to n local variables after the `|' in a method declaration, then there's the return variable also. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Jay, just to clarify, you're using these regular expressions in some kind of scripting language inside TextMate itself, right? I'm not familiar with TextMate, but if I were doing this in Perl, I would capture the entire parameter list with the regex, then use split with a \s*,\s* pattern to break out the parameters into an array.

What is your final objective? A full parse or just enough to do highlighting?

-Phil

Jay Kickliter

Thanks Phil, just for highlighting. Unfortunately, it isn't in a scripting language, so I have to do it with just regular expressions.