[Geany] 'function regex' in php.c

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Wed Aug 19 21:21:30 UTC 2009


On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:52:02 +0200, Harold wrote:

>Dear Geany devs,
>
>I've been tinkering with the regex in tagmanager/php.c to better
>detect functions. My regex is still far from perfect, but I'll only
>detect functions prefixed with either whitespace or on or more of
>these: public, protected, private or static.
>
>I'd guess a better approach would be to detect the opening parenthesis
>'(' after the function name...
>
>The first 2 commented 'functions' are indexed by the current regex as
>the functions 'should' and 'would'.

Giving that I'm not very good in reading and understanding regular
expressions, the patch looks good to me.
The approach is pretty much ok, I think. At least it should make the
current situation much better even if not perfect.

Any objections in committing it? Any other PHP users around?

Regards,
Enrico

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