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| search = { | |
| pattern = [[(?:\/\/|--(\[\[)?|\*|#\|?|%\{?|;|\{-)[\t ]*(?:(KEYWORDS):)]], | |
| --[[ | |
| Regex explanation: | |
| 1. (?:...) - non-capture group for comment tokens: | |
| \/\/ - matches // , used in lots of languages | |
| --(\[\[)? - matches -- and --[[ , -- used in SQL, Haskell, Lua, | |
| Ada, AppleScript, VHDL, --[[ used in Lua multiline, also | |
| matches <!-- for HTML, XML, Markdown | |
| \* - matches various formats ( /* /** (* ), lines starting | |
| with * in formatted multiline comments (usually | |
| after /* ), also COBOL | |
| #\|? - matches # and #| - lots of languages comment with # , | |
| ### used in CoffeeScript, #| in Racket and Common | |
| Lisp multiline | |
| %\{? - matches % and %{, % used in MATLAB, Erlang, Prolog, | |
| TeX/LaTeX, also %{ used in MATLAB | |
| ; - used in Assembly, Lisp, Clojure, Scheme, INI files | |
| {- - Haskel multiline | |
| 2. [\t ]* - 0 or any amount of tabs and spaces | |
| 3. (?:(KEYWORDS):) - non-capture group with keywords placeholder ending with : | |
| This regex does not match: Python docstrings ( """ or ''' ), Ruby | |
| multiline ( =begin ), Clojure comment reader macro, Batch files, | |
| Roxygen, Fortran, Visual Basic, VBScript, Basic, PostScript, J, M4 | |
| ]] | |
| } |
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