Re: Parse::RecDescent - Any Way to do a Negation?

[ajwans]

Masem is correct, use the reject keyword.

XXX: YYY
   | 'something' 'else'
   | 'a' <reject>
   | 'this string' <reject>
   | ZZZ <reject>

YYY: 'some string'
ZZZ: 'ww' | 'xx' | 'yy' | 'zz'

This will cause the parse to fail for this branch, be careful that your grammar is not set up so that there are alternate paths to parse the string and your

$parser->start ($string);

will fail.

"Don't you hate it when people quote themselves?" - me

[Incognito]

I'll give it a try, but we're actually trying to do this:

YYY && ! ('a' | 'b' | ZZZ) | 'something else'

So shouldn't this be the syntax?

XXX: YYY ('a' | 'b' | ZZZ) <reject>
   | 'something' 'else'

YYY: 'some string'
ZZZ: 'ww' | 'xx' | 'yy' | 'zz'

I'm not really sure if this is valid but I'll give it a try for now.

It's pretty confusing actually, because another Production I'd like to write is:

NonTerminator: SourceCharacter but not LineTerminator

So this is my first attempt:

NonTerminator: SourceCharacter |
               SourceCharacter LineTerminator <reject>

Anyone think this is correct? or is it:

NonTerminator: SourceCharacter LineTerminator <reject>

somehow I do not think the second one is correct...

Does the <reject> apply to the entire line or just the item that it follows?