[erlang-questions] prettypr

[Andrew Berman]

What about this?

Comments = erl_comment_scan:string(Text),
{ok, Form, _} = erl_scan:string(Text),
{ok, Tree} = erl_parse:parse_form(Form),
{Tree2, _} = erl_recomment:recomment_tree(Tree, Comments),
erl_prettypr:format(Tree2).

--Andrew


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> If the code you want to pretty-print is generated from other code - and
> you don't want to create abstract forms by hand (most don't) - I can also
> recommend parse_trans_codegen:
>
> https://github.com/esl/parse_trans/blob/master/doc/parse_trans_codegen.md
>
> It's a fairly easy, and less error-prone, way to generate code.
>
> If you look e.g. at
> https://github.com/esl/parse_trans/blob/master/examples/ex_codegen.erl
>
> we can try the two first functions:
>
> f(Name) ->
>     codegen:gen_function(
>       Name,
>       fun(1,2,3) ->
>               foo;
>           (A,B,C) ->
>               {A,B,C}
>       end).
>
> g(Name, V) ->
>     codegen:gen_function(
>       Name,
>       fun(L) ->
>               member({'$var',V}, L)
>       end).
>
>
> Eshell V5.9  (abort with ^G)
> 1> c(ex_codegen).
> {ok,ex_codegen}
> 2> ex_codegen:f(foo).
> {function,9,foo,3,
>           [{clause,11,
>                    [{integer,11,1},{integer,11,2},{integer,11,3}],
>                    [],
>                    [{atom,12,foo}]},
>            {clause,13,
>                    [{var,13,'A'},{var,13,'B'},{var,13,'C'}],
>                    [],
>                    [{tuple,14,[{var,14,'A'},{var,14,'B'},{var,14,'C'}]}]}]}
> 3> ex_codegen:g(is_in, foo).
> {function,20,is_in,1,
>           [{clause,22,
>                    [{var,22,'L'}],
>                    [],
>
>  [{call,23,{atom,23,member},[{atom,23,foo},{var,23,'L'}]}]}]}
> 4> io:fwrite("~s~n", [erl_pp:form(v(3))]).
> is_in(L) ->
>     member(foo, L).
>
>
> …you get the idea.
>
> Now, since I actually don't know exactly what you are trying to do, I will
> quit throwing out suggestions. :)
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
> On 11 May 2012, at 22:28, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
>
> Thank you Ulf.
>
> So i first should erl_parse:tokens/1, then erl_parse:parse/form/1 then use
> what you suggested?
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>>
>> You could take a look at how parse_trans does it:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/esl/parse_trans/blob/master/src/parse_trans_pp.erl#L65
>>
>> It uses erl_pp instead of erl_prettypr for reasons I have since forgotten
>> (it was something that, at one time, erl_prettypr had problems with, but
>> erl_pp was able to handle).
>>
>> BR,
>> Ulf W
>>
>> On 11 May 2012, at 22:01, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> is there a way to use prettypr on a list()?
>>
>> I want to pretty format some source code, all I found is a Trapexit post
>> showing this:
>>
>> F="tst.erl",
>>
>> erl_prettypr:format(erl_recomment:recomment_forms(element(2,epp_dodger:parse_file(F)),erl_comment_scan:file(F))).
>>
>> Unfortunately this is based on parsing a file, and epp_dodger needs an
>> IoDevice to parse code.
>>
>> Is there a way to do something similar but inputting the code as list()
>> instead of parsing a file?
>>
>> r.
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>>
>>
>>
>
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