(***********************************************************************) (* *) (* Objective Caml *) (* *) (* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *) (* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with *) (* the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE. *) (* *) (***********************************************************************) (* $Id: lexing.mli,v 1.32 2006/09/12 10:38:18 doligez Exp $ *) (** The run-time library for lexers generated by [ocamllex]. *) (** {6 Positions} *) type position = { pos_fname : string; pos_lnum : int; pos_bol : int; pos_cnum : int; } (** A value of type [position] describes a point in a source file. [pos_fname] is the file name; [pos_lnum] is the line number; [pos_bol] is the offset of the beginning of the line (number of characters between the beginning of the file and the beginning of the line); [pos_cnum] is the offset of the position (number of characters between the beginning of the file and the position). See the documentation of type [lexbuf] for information about how the lexing engine will manage positions. *) val dummy_pos : position;; (** A value of type [position], guaranteed to be different from any valid position. *) (** {6 Lexer buffers} *) type lexbuf = { refill_buff : lexbuf -> unit; mutable lex_buffer : string; mutable lex_buffer_len : int; mutable lex_abs_pos : int; mutable lex_start_pos : int; mutable lex_curr_pos : int; mutable lex_last_pos : int; mutable lex_last_action : int; mutable lex_eof_reached : bool; mutable lex_mem : int array; mutable lex_start_p : position; mutable lex_curr_p : position; } (** The type of lexer buffers. A lexer buffer is the argument passed to the scanning functions defined by the generated scanners. The lexer buffer holds the current state of the scanner, plus a function to refill the buffer from the input. Note that the lexing engine will only change the [pos_cnum] field of [lex_curr_p] by updating it with the number of characters read since the start of the [lexbuf]. The other fields are copied without change by the lexing engine. In order to keep them accurate, they must be initialised before the first use of the lexbuf, and updated by the relevant lexer actions (i.e. at each end of line). *) val from_channel : in_channel -> lexbuf (** Create a lexer buffer on the given input channel. [Lexing.from_channel inchan] returns a lexer buffer which reads from the input channel [inchan], at the current reading position. *) val from_string : string -> lexbuf (** Create a lexer buffer which reads from the given string. Reading starts from the first character in the string. An end-of-input condition is generated when the end of the string is reached. *) val from_function : (string -> int -> int) -> lexbuf (** Create a lexer buffer with the given function as its reading method. When the scanner needs more characters, it will call the given function, giving it a character string [s] and a character count [n]. The function should put [n] characters or less in [s], starting at character number 0, and return the number of characters provided. A return value of 0 means end of input. *) (** {6 Functions for lexer semantic actions} *) (** The following functions can be called from the semantic actions of lexer definitions (the ML code enclosed in braces that computes the value returned by lexing functions). They give access to the character string matched by the regular expression associated with the semantic action. These functions must be applied to the argument [lexbuf], which, in the code generated by [ocamllex], is bound to the lexer buffer passed to the parsing function. *) val lexeme : lexbuf -> string (** [Lexing.lexeme lexbuf] returns the string matched by the regular expression. *) val lexeme_char : lexbuf -> int -> char (** [Lexing.lexeme_char lexbuf i] returns character number [i] in the matched string. *) val lexeme_start : lexbuf -> int (** [Lexing.lexeme_start lexbuf] returns the offset in the input stream of the first character of the matched string. The first character of the stream has offset 0. *) val lexeme_end : lexbuf -> int (** [Lexing.lexeme_end lexbuf] returns the offset in the input stream of the character following the last character of the matched string. The first character of the stream has offset 0. *) val lexeme_start_p : lexbuf -> position (** Like [lexeme_start], but return a complete [position] instead of an offset. *) val lexeme_end_p : lexbuf -> position (** Like [lexeme_end], but return a complete [position] instead of an offset. *) (** {6 Miscellaneous functions} *) val flush_input : lexbuf -> unit (** Discard the contents of the buffer and reset the current position to 0. The next use of the lexbuf will trigger a refill. *) (**/**) (** {6 } *) (** The following definitions are used by the generated scanners only. They are not intended to be used by user programs. *) val sub_lexeme : lexbuf -> int -> int -> string val sub_lexeme_opt : lexbuf -> int -> int -> string option val sub_lexeme_char : lexbuf -> int -> char val sub_lexeme_char_opt : lexbuf -> int -> char option type lex_tables = { lex_base : string; lex_backtrk : string; lex_default : string; lex_trans : string; lex_check : string; lex_base_code : string; lex_backtrk_code : string; lex_default_code : string; lex_trans_code : string; lex_check_code : string; lex_code: string;} val engine : lex_tables -> int -> lexbuf -> int val new_engine : lex_tables -> int -> lexbuf -> int