scribble-math/Lexer.js
Emily Eisenberg 4122fa2b99 Rewrite the parser
Summary:
Make our own parser that doesn't use jison, so that we can handle
funny TeX syntax, and to make it smaller.

Test Plan: Make sure the tests pass with the new parser.

Reviewers: alpert

Reviewed By: alpert

Differential Revision: http://phabricator.khanacademy.org/D3029
2013-07-12 23:16:30 -07:00

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// The main lexer class
function Lexer(input) {
this._input = input;
};
// The result of a single lex
function LexResult(type, text, position) {
this.type = type;
this.text = text;
this.position = position;
}
// "normal" types of tokens
var normals = [
[/^[/|@."`0-9]/, 'textord'],
[/^[a-zA-Z]/, 'mathord'],
[/^[*+-]/, 'bin'],
[/^[=<>]/, 'rel'],
[/^[,;]/, 'punct'],
[/^\^/, '^'],
[/^_/, '_'],
[/^{/, '{'],
[/^}/, '}'],
[/^[(\[]/, 'open'],
[/^[)\]?!]/, 'close']
];
// Different functions
var funcs = [
// Bin symbols
'cdot', 'pm', 'div',
// Rel symbols
'leq', 'geq', 'neq', 'nleq', 'ngeq',
// Open/close symbols
'lvert', 'rvert',
// Punct symbols
'colon',
// Spacing symbols
'qquad', 'quad', ' ', 'space', ',', ':', ';',
// Colors
'blue', 'orange', 'pink', 'red', 'green', 'gray', 'purple',
// Mathy functions
"arcsin", "arccos", "arctan", "arg", "cos", "cosh", "cot", "coth", "csc",
"deg", "dim", "exp", "hom", "ker", "lg", "ln", "log", "sec", "sin", "sinh",
"tan", "tanh",
// Other functions
'dfrac', 'llap', 'rlap'
];
// Build a regex to easily parse the functions
var anyFunc = new RegExp("^\\\\(" + funcs.join("|") + ")(?![a-zA-Z])");
// Lex a single token
Lexer.prototype.lex = function(pos) {
var input = this._input.slice(pos);
// Get rid of whitespace
var whitespace = input.match(/^\s*/)[0];
pos += whitespace.length;
input = input.slice(whitespace.length);
// If there's no more input to parse, return an EOF token
if (input.length === 0) {
return new LexResult('EOF', null, pos);
}
var match;
if ((match = input.match(anyFunc))) {
// If we match one of the tokens, extract the type
return new LexResult(match[1], match[0], pos + match[0].length);
} else {
// Otherwise, we look through the normal token regexes and see if it's
// one of them.
for (var i = 0; i < normals.length; i++) {
var normal = normals[i];
if ((match = input.match(normal[0]))) {
// If it is, return it
return new LexResult(
normal[1], match[0], pos + match[0].length);
}
}
}
// We didn't match any of the tokens, so throw an error.
throw "Unexpected character: '" + input[0] + "' at position " + this._pos;
};
module.exports = Lexer;