ocaml/stdlib/lexing.mli

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(* OCaml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
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(** The run-time library for lexers generated by [ocamllex]. *)
(** {6 Positions} *)
type position = {
pos_fname : string;
pos_lnum : int;
pos_bol : int;
pos_cnum : int;
}
(** A value of type [position] describes a point in a source file.
[pos_fname] is the file name; [pos_lnum] is the line number;
[pos_bol] is the offset of the beginning of the line (number
of characters between the beginning of the lexbuf and the beginning
of the line); [pos_cnum] is the offset of the position (number of
characters between the beginning of the lexbuf and the position).
The difference between [pos_cnum] and [pos_bol] is the character
offset within the line (i.e. the column number, assuming each
character is one column wide).
See the documentation of type [lexbuf] for information about
how the lexing engine will manage positions.
*)
val dummy_pos : position;;
(** A value of type [position], guaranteed to be different from any
valid position.
*)
(** {6 Lexer buffers} *)
type lexbuf =
{ refill_buff : lexbuf -> unit;
mutable lex_buffer : bytes;
mutable lex_buffer_len : int;
mutable lex_abs_pos : int;
mutable lex_start_pos : int;
mutable lex_curr_pos : int;
mutable lex_last_pos : int;
mutable lex_last_action : int;
mutable lex_eof_reached : bool;
mutable lex_mem : int array;
mutable lex_start_p : position;
mutable lex_curr_p : position;
}
(** The type of lexer buffers. A lexer buffer is the argument passed
to the scanning functions defined by the generated scanners.
The lexer buffer holds the current state of the scanner, plus
a function to refill the buffer from the input.
At each token, the lexing engine will copy [lex_curr_p] to
[lex_start_p], then change the [pos_cnum] field
of [lex_curr_p] by updating it with the number of characters read
since the start of the [lexbuf]. The other fields are left
unchanged by the lexing engine. In order to keep them
accurate, they must be initialised before the first use of the
lexbuf, and updated by the relevant lexer actions (i.e. at each
end of line -- see also [new_line]).
*)
val from_channel : in_channel -> lexbuf
(** Create a lexer buffer on the given input channel.
[Lexing.from_channel inchan] returns a lexer buffer which reads
from the input channel [inchan], at the current reading position. *)
val from_string : string -> lexbuf
(** Create a lexer buffer which reads from
the given string. Reading starts from the first character in
the string. An end-of-input condition is generated when the
end of the string is reached. *)
val from_function : (bytes -> int -> int) -> lexbuf
(** Create a lexer buffer with the given function as its reading method.
When the scanner needs more characters, it will call the given
function, giving it a byte sequence [s] and a byte
count [n]. The function should put [n] bytes or fewer in [s],
starting at index 0, and return the number of bytes
provided. A return value of 0 means end of input. *)
(** {6 Functions for lexer semantic actions} *)
(** The following functions can be called from the semantic actions
of lexer definitions (the ML code enclosed in braces that
computes the value returned by lexing functions). They give
access to the character string matched by the regular expression
associated with the semantic action. These functions must be
applied to the argument [lexbuf], which, in the code generated by
[ocamllex], is bound to the lexer buffer passed to the parsing
function. *)
val lexeme : lexbuf -> string
(** [Lexing.lexeme lexbuf] returns the string matched by
the regular expression. *)
val lexeme_char : lexbuf -> int -> char
(** [Lexing.lexeme_char lexbuf i] returns character number [i] in
the matched string. *)
val lexeme_start : lexbuf -> int
(** [Lexing.lexeme_start lexbuf] returns the offset in the
input stream of the first character of the matched string.
The first character of the stream has offset 0. *)
val lexeme_end : lexbuf -> int
(** [Lexing.lexeme_end lexbuf] returns the offset in the input stream
of the character following the last character of the matched
string. The first character of the stream has offset 0. *)
val lexeme_start_p : lexbuf -> position
(** Like [lexeme_start], but return a complete [position] instead
of an offset. *)
val lexeme_end_p : lexbuf -> position
(** Like [lexeme_end], but return a complete [position] instead
of an offset. *)
val new_line : lexbuf -> unit
(** Update the [lex_curr_p] field of the lexbuf to reflect the start
of a new line. You can call this function in the semantic action
of the rule that matches the end-of-line character.
@since 3.11.0
*)
(** {6 Miscellaneous functions} *)
val flush_input : lexbuf -> unit
(** Discard the contents of the buffer and reset the current
position to 0. The next use of the lexbuf will trigger a
refill. *)
(**/**)
(** {6 } *)
(** The following definitions are used by the generated scanners only.
They are not intended to be used directly by user programs. *)
val sub_lexeme : lexbuf -> int -> int -> string
val sub_lexeme_opt : lexbuf -> int -> int -> string option
val sub_lexeme_char : lexbuf -> int -> char
val sub_lexeme_char_opt : lexbuf -> int -> char option
type lex_tables =
{ lex_base : string;
lex_backtrk : string;
lex_default : string;
lex_trans : string;
lex_check : string;
lex_base_code : string;
lex_backtrk_code : string;
lex_default_code : string;
lex_trans_code : string;
lex_check_code : string;
lex_code: string;}
val engine : lex_tables -> int -> lexbuf -> int
val new_engine : lex_tables -> int -> lexbuf -> int