James K. Lowden said on Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:42:20 -0500
>Rather than remove trailing blanks from the input, I would remove them
>in flex. The problem can be solved with regular expressions but,
>since we're only matching one value, it's easily done in an action:
>
> .+ {
> for( auto p = yytext + yyleng - 1; p >= yytext; p-- ) {
> if( *p != 0x20 ) break;
> *p = '\0';
> }
Nice!
>
>
>To solve it with regex,
>
> ([[:blank:]]*[[:^space:]])+ { ... return LINE; }
> [[:blank:]]+$ // ignore
Nice!
Thanks James. I'll be investigating your techniques in the near future.
As you can see, your suggestions contributed to my working text to HTML
baby Hello World.
SteveT
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