Re: How to select the regex that matches the first token of a string?

[user1234 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 3 July 2021 at 09:05:28 UTC, vnr wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to make a small generic lexer that bases its token analysis on regular expressions. The principle I have in mind is to define a token type table with its corresponding regular expression, here is the code I currently have:

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storing the regex in a token is an antipattern.