[ragel-users] Ignoring whitespace

[Tom Harris]

Greetings,

I am trying out a recursive parser using fret & fcall for the first time,
so far it is all working!

What I am having trouble with is so simple, I just want to ignore
whitespace, so whitespace may serve to seperate symbols. Is there an easy
way to do this, other than just adding space* all over the grammar?

[RU]

Essentially, yes.

jg

[Michael Conrad]

Post by Tom Harris
What I am having trouble with is so simple, I just want to ignore
whitespace, so whitespace may serve to seperate symbols. Is there an
easy way to do this, other than just adding space* all over the grammar?

You can always pre-process your buffer, converting all runs of
whitespace to a single space character. That will make the required
machine smaller. Written in C, it might even be a speed improvement.

-Mike