[Lazarus] TMask revisited

[José Mejuto]

El 17/10/2021 a las 9:08, Juha Manninen via lazarus escribió:

> 
>     What does eMaskOpcodeOptionalChar do?
>     It's not very clear to me from the comments in the code.
> 
> Good question. It is the one syntax I don't fully understand yet.
> Below is an explanation from José himself. I will study this syntax 
> later and add more unit test cases.
> ---
> eMaskOpcodeOptionalChar is the set "1[ab]2" matches "1a2" and "ab2" but 
> not "1c2".
> ---
> I am not sure if it is correct. I will return to this later...

Hello,

OpcodeOptionalChar (maybe the name should be OptionChar) works in the 
compiled stream as CheckMatch and if match go to next char; if not match 
continue checking without advance in the target string.

Most people are familiar with ranges "[a-z]", optional chars use the 
same "[" syntax but without the dash "-", so "[abcde]" matches one 
position with any of those chars or if you negate the set "[!abcde]" it 
will match any char *except* any of those.

Have a nice day.


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