factor/basis/multiline/multiline-docs.factor

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USING: help.markup help.syntax strings ;
IN: multiline
HELP: STRING:
{ $syntax "STRING: name\nfoo\n;" }
{ $description "Forms a multiline string literal, or 'here document' stored in the word called name. A semicolon is used to signify the end, and that semicolon must be on a line by itself, not preceeded or followed by any whitespace. The string will have newlines in between lines but not at the end, unless there is a blank line before the semicolon." } ;
HELP: /*
{ $syntax "/* comment */" }
{ $description "Provides C-like comments that can span multiple lines. One caveat is that " { $snippet "/*" } " and " { $snippet "*/" } " are still tokens and must not appear in the comment text itself." }
{ $examples
{ $example "USING: multiline ;"
"/* I think that I shall never see"
" A poem lovely as a tree. */"
""
}
} ;
HELP: HEREDOC:
{ $syntax "HEREDOC: marker\n...text...\nmarker" }
{ $values { "marker" "a word (token)" } { "text" "arbitrary text" } { "value" string } }
{ $description "Returns a string delimited by an arbitrary user-defined token. This delimiter must be exactly the text beginning at the first non-blank character after " { $link POSTPONE: HEREDOC: } " until the end of the line containing " { $link POSTPONE: HEREDOC: } ". Text is captured until a line is found containing exactly this delimiter string." }
{ $warning "Whitespace is significant." }
{ $examples
{ $example "USING: multiline prettyprint ;"
"HEREDOC: END\nx\nEND\n."
"\"x\\n\""
}
{ $example "USING: multiline prettyprint sequences ;"
"2 5 HEREDOC: zap\nfoo\nbar\nzap\nsubseq ."
"\"o\\nb\""
}
} ;
HELP: DELIMITED:
{ $syntax "DELIMITED: marker\n...text...\nmarker" }
{ $values { "marker" "a word (token)" } { "text" "arbitrary text" } { "value" string } }
{ $description "Returns a string delimited by an arbitrary user-defined token. This delimiter must be exactly the text beginning at the first non-blank character after " { $link POSTPONE: DELIMITED: } " until the end of the line containing " { $link POSTPONE: DELIMITED: } ". Text is captured until the exact delimiter string is found, regardless of where." }
{ $warning "Whitespace is significant on the " { $link POSTPONE: DELIMITED: } " line." }
{ $examples
{ $example "USING: multiline prettyprint ;"
"DELIMITED: factor blows my mind"
"whoafactor blows my mind ."
"\"whoa\""
}
} ;
HELP: parse-multiline-string
{ $values { "end-text" "a string delineating the end" } { "str" "the parsed string" } }
{ $description "Parses the input stream until the " { $snippet "end-text" } " is reached and returns the parsed text as a string." }
{ $notes "Used to implement " { $link POSTPONE: /* } "." } ;
ARTICLE: "multiline" "Multiline"
"Multiline strings:"
{ $subsections
POSTPONE: STRING:
POSTPONE: HEREDOC:
POSTPONE: DELIMITED:
}
"Multiline comments:"
{ $subsections POSTPONE: /* }
"Writing new multiline parsing words:"
{ $subsections parse-multiline-string }
;
ABOUT: "multiline"