How would I match anything up until certain character sequence?
DreadBoy opened this issue · comments
Let's say I try to match these 2 sentences:
The mind flayer magically emits psychic energy in a 60-foot cone.
The dragon exhales lightning in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide.
I don't have a problem writing a grammar for in a 60-foot cone
or in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide
together with a semantic rules but I'm struggling with text before these 2 sequences. I'd like to match any text before " in "
and disregard it since it's just a fluff. I tried:
start = any+ " in " // this will match entire sentence but I'd like it to stop at first occurence of "in"
start = ~" in "+ " in " // this isn't a valid syntax...
If I were to write this as regex, I'd write it as .+? in (...rest of regex)
, how would I express that in Ohm?
I think what you want to do is:
start = (~" in " any)* " in "
Thanks for answering this, @AbigailBuccaneer!