Rule

Description

abstract class Tinman.Core.Parsing.Rule

Derived from: IRule

Abstract base class for IRule implementations.

Public / Constructors

Add

public static method Add → (2)

first ⁱⁿ : IRule: First rule or null.
second ⁱⁿ : IRule: Second rule or null.
returns → IRule: The resulting rule or null.

Combines the given rules with IRule.Add while ignoring null values.

Or

public static method Or → (2)

first ⁱⁿ : IRule: First rule or null.
second ⁱⁿ : IRule: Second rule or null.
returns → IRule: The resulting rule or null.

Combines the given rules with IRule.Or while ignoring null values.

Public / Methods

NameProxy

public static method NameProxy → (2)

name ⁱⁿ : string: [not-empty]
The grammar rule name.
grammar ^opt : Grammar = null: The grammar object the rule belongs to or null,
returns → IGrammarRuleProxy: The rule.

Returns a an empty grammar rule that can be used by other rules.

At some later point, the proxy must be set by calling IGrammarRuleProxy.SetProxyTarget.

See also: Grammar.GetRule²

NoneOf

_2 overloads

public static method NoneOf¹ → (1)

chars ⁱⁿ : string: [not-empty]
The characters.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches all characters except the given ones.

public static method NoneOf² → (1)

chars ⁱⁿ : IBagConst<char>: [not-empty]
The characters.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches all characters except the given ones.

OneOf

_2 overloads

public static method OneOf¹ → (1)

chars ⁱⁿ : string: [not-empty]
The characters.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches one of the given characters.

public static method OneOf² → (1)

chars ⁱⁿ : IBagConst<char>: [not-empty]
The characters.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches one of the given characters.

Range

public static method Range → (2)

from ⁱⁿ : char: First character of range, inclusive.
to ⁱⁿ : char: [>=from]
Last character of range, inclusive.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches one character in the given range.

ToCharSet

public static method ToCharSet → (2)

s ⁱⁿ : string: The input string.
chars ⁱⁿ : IBag<char>: The set to use or null.
returns → IBag<char>: The set of characters.

Returns a set that contains all the characters found in the given string.

Token

_2 overloads

public static method Token¹ → (2)

token ⁱⁿ : string: [not-empty]
The string token.
caseSensitive ^opt : bool = true: Perform case-sensitive match for the token?
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches the given string token.

public static method Token² → (1)

token ⁱⁿ : char: The character token.
returns → IRule: The rule.

Returns a rule that matches the given character token.