Re: Syntax error if paragraph contains more than 1 printable character

[Steve Litt]

James K. Lowden said on Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:42:20 -0500
>Rather than remove trailing blanks from the input, I would remove them
>in flex.  The problem can be solved with regular expressions but,
>since we're only matching one value, it's easily done in an action: 
>
>       .+      {
>               for( auto p = yytext + yyleng - 1; p >= yytext; p-- ) {
>                       if( *p != 0x20 ) break;
>                       *p = '\0';
>               }

Nice!

>
>
>To solve it with regex, 
>
>       ([[:blank:]]*[[:^space:]])+ { ... return LINE; }
>       [[:blank:]]+$   // ignore

Nice!

Thanks James. I'll be investigating your techniques in the near future.
As you can see, your suggestions contributed to my working text to HTML
baby Hello World.

SteveT

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