Block Regular Expressions (Regexs/Regexps)

balupton · October 29, 2020, 3:08am

essentially same as Make it possible to divide regular expressions into chunks

however request is specifically for the syntax that coffeescript uses:

which is why this repo is still in coffeescript all these years later:

bevry/docmatter/blob/f7b3f1bbae9ebcddf9a5228515652776c128f500/source/index.coffee#L1-L31


# Prepare
regex = ///
	# allow some space
	^\s*
	# allow potential comment characters in delimiter
	[^\n]*?
	# discover our delimiter
	(
		([^\s\d\w])  #\2
		\2{2,}  # match the above (the first character of our delimiter), 2 or more times
	) #\1
	# discover our parser (optional)
	(?:
		\x20*  # allow zero or more space characters, see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2668
		(
			[a-z]+  # parser must be lowercase alpha
		)  #\3
	)?
	# discover our meta content
	(

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claudiameadows · November 23, 2020, 4:03am

/// is a valid comment. You'll need to pick a different delimiter.

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Block Regular Expressions (Regexs/Regexps)

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