[erlang-questions] Parsing UUIDs with Leex

[Massimo Cesaro]

Right, although if you read the leex.erl source code it seems that it
could.
Whatever. I'll stick to UUIDs as strings.

Thank you all.

Massimo

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:27 PM Håkan Huss <huss01@REDACTED> wrote:

> Den lör 12 okt. 2019 14:39Massimo Cesaro <massimo.cesaro@REDACTED> skrev:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:30 PM Stanislaw Klekot <erlang.org@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:22:32PM +0200, Massimo Cesaro wrote:
>>> > Today I was trying to define a UUID data type in the DSL language
>>> using the
>>> > following definition in the leex .xlr file:
>>> >
>>> > UUID =
>>> >
>>> [0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}
>>> >
>>> > and the corresponding rule:
>>> > {UUID}       : {token, {uuid, TokenChars, TokenLine}}.
>>>
>>> Are you sure that {8} is not treated as a macro name?
>>>
>>
>> Not really, I'm looking into leex source.
>>
>
> Looking at the Leex docs for the supported regexes it seems that the {n}
> construct isn't supported.
>
> /Håkan
>
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