scribble-math/Lexer.js
Ben Alpert cab5af40b6 Always throw real ParseErrors
Also sneak in a colon.

Auditors: emily
2013-07-28 17:54:41 -07:00

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var ParseError = require("./ParseError");
// 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"]
];
// Build a regex to easily parse the functions
var anyFunc = /^\\(?:[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[0], 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 new ParseError("Unexpected character: '" + input[0] +
"' at position " + pos);
};
module.exports = Lexer;