[ragel-users] Exit action

[Adrian Thurston]

You can use an error action to do that.

-Adrian

Eric Brown wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> Thanks. I'd missed the longest-match kleene star documentation.
> 
> Sorry if this is a stupid question -- I'm looking for the best of both worlds. How do I get a longest-match kleene star machine to start over if there is an error?
> 
> For example, a document of "mailto:email1 at x ... mailto:email2 at y ... mailto:invalid_email ... mailto:email4 at z" will find the first two but will exit on the third invalid_email when I really want it to keep going and find email4 at z.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:42 , Adrian Thurston wrote:
> 
>> Use:
>>
>> mail := (any | mailto)**;
>>
>> For the answer why, please see chapter four of the manual.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> Eric Brown wrote:
>>> If I have two ORed machines, is there a leaving action I can get when a machine is finally exiting?
>>> For example, I believe this is a simplified form of my parser:
>>> host = [A-Za-z0-9\-.]+;
>>> mailto = (/mailto:/i sender_chars+ '@' (host %mailto_end)) $mailto;
>>> mail := (any | mailto)*;
>>> The %mailto_end will get executed on every single character of host. I just want it to pick up the last character of host. Is there a way?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Eric
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