OpenEuphoria

Re: A Puzzle in Eu -- what would you do?

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at telenet.be> Aug 05, 2005
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cklester wrote:
> DB James wrote:
> > What if the line contents above were this?:
> > line=InnocentRtn("--In Eu, a comment begins with 2 hyphens") --A real
> > comment
> > 
> > The "x" would report the first "--" and miss the real comment (oops).
> > 
> > The puzzle:
> > How do *you* deal with this?
> 
> In this case, just reverse the string first. Then, the first set of '--' is
> the real comment. Snip it, reverse it back, and carry on.
> 
> x = "code --fake comment -- real comment"
> 
> becomes
> 
> x = "tnemmoc laer -- tnemmoc ekaf-- edoc"
> 
> then becomes
> 
> x = " tnemmoc ekaf-- edoc"
> 
> which finalizes to
> 
> x = "code --fake comment "

This won't work if the real comment also contains --, like this

s = "-- fake comment" -- real comment with -- in it

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