Stuck on an issue?
Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.
And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.
Regex doesn't work in syntax highlighting
See original GitHub issueHi. I have this regex: https://regex101.com/r/P3WGak/1 And everywhere it works, but not in syntax highlighting. I have this:
<Span foreground="#FF5555">
<Begin>(&[clkmno])+</Begin>
<End>((?<!")"(?!"))|((?<="")"(?!"))</End>
</Span>
And, as you can see:
It doesn’t work. Why?
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created a year ago
- Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)
Top Results From Across the Web
Is syntax-highlighting programming languages using ...
So no, you can't do useful, accurate syntax higlighting just with regex tokenizing, but regexes with hierarchical parsing can do a good job....
Read more >Why does my regex code not work?
However, when I try to implement it in TeXworks' syntax-patterns.txt file, it doesn't. Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong ? syntax-highlighting....
Read more >syntax highlight doesn't work correctly if regex match is split ...
I found that, sometimes when a regex match for syntax highlight is split into multipole lines, syntax highlight only matches the part on...
Read more >Sublime Text: Why regex in syntax highlighting does not ...
In Sublime Text 3, a default syntax highlighting rule paints a SQL SELECT just fine if it's in the same line, but not...
Read more >Is there a good syntax highlighting hint for regular ...
In Java for example regex's are always in a String, so code highlighting doesn't handle them at all. Ideally capturing groups etc. would...
Read more >
Top Related Medium Post
No results found
Top Related StackOverflow Question
No results found
Troubleshoot Live Code
Lightrun enables developers to add logs, metrics and snapshots to live code - no restarts or redeploys required.
Start Free
Top Related Reddit Thread
No results found
Top Related Hackernoon Post
No results found
Top Related Tweet
No results found
Top Related Dev.to Post
No results found
Top Related Hashnode Post
No results found
I will post a working example of what I had in mind in the evening.
Hey. Oh my god, it was 24 days! I returned to my project and I need to reopen this 😢 When I get the idea to get the last quote, I didn’t think of one situation: two or more
"". It breaks completely in it…I can’t use your solution. E.g.
&cis the color code, and in my editor it previews it.