[erlang-questions] erl_scan issues

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi!

I found some unexpected behaviour for erl_scan and I hope someone can shed
a light as to if it's supposed to be like that or it's a bug. IMHO the
latter applies.

> erl_scan:string("a. b",{1,1},[return,text]).
{ok,[{atom,[{line,1},{column,1},{text,"a"}],a},
     {dot,[{line,1},{column,2},{text,". "}]},
     {atom,[{line,1},{column,4},{text,"b"}],b}],
    {1,5}}

In short, the first newline or whitespace after a dot is included in the
textual representation of the token. Why would anyone have that?

regards,
Vlad
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