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# This example demonstrates how pieces of input can be captured and matched
# against later on. Without this, you cannot match here-documents and other
# self-dependent grammars. 

$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../lib"
require 'parslet'
require 'parslet/convenience'
require 'pp'

class CapturingParser < Parslet::Parser
  root :document
  
  # Introduce a scope for each document. This ensures that documents can be
  # nested. 
  rule(:document) { scope { doc_start >> text >> doc_end } }
  
  # Start of a document is a heredoc marker. This is captured in :marker
  rule(:doc_start) { str('<') >> marker >> newline }
  rule(:marker) { match['A-Z'].repeat(1).capture(:marker) }

  # The content of a document can be either lines of text or another 
  # document, introduced by <HERE, where HERE is the doc marker. 
  rule(:text) { (document.as(:doc) | text_line.as(:line)).repeat(1) }
  rule(:text_line) { captured_marker.absent? >> any >> 
    (newline.absent? >> any).repeat >> newline }
    
  # The end of the document is marked by the marker that was at the beginning
  # of the document, by itself on a line.
  rule(:doc_end) { captured_marker }
  rule(:captured_marker) { 
    dynamic { |source, context|
      str(context.captures[:marker])
    }
  }
  
  rule(:newline) { match["\n"] }
end

parser = CapturingParser.new
pp parser.parse_with_debug %Q(<CAPTURE
Text1
<FOOBAR
Text3
Text4
FOOBAR
Text2
CAPTURE)

Version data entries

12 entries across 12 versions & 2 rubygems

Version	Path
parslet-2.0.0	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.8.2	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.8.1	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.8.0	example/capture.rb
swift-pyrite-0.1.1	vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/parslet-1.7.1/example/capture.rb
swift-pyrite-0.1.0	vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/parslet-1.7.1/example/capture.rb
parslet-1.7.1	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.7.0	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.6.2	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.6.1	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.6.0	example/capture.rb
parslet-1.5.0	example/capture.rb