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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/pure/parseutils.nim')
| -rwxr-xr-x | lib/pure/parseutils.nim | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/parseutils.nim b/lib/pure/parseutils.nim index 0878f87eb..04d2a7973 100755 --- a/lib/pure/parseutils.nim +++ b/lib/pure/parseutils.nim @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # distribution, for details about the copyright. # -## Helpers for parsing. +## This module contains helpers for parsing tokens, numbers, identifiers, etc. {.deadCodeElim: on.} @@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ template newException(exceptn, message: expr): expr = const Whitespace = {' ', '\t', '\v', '\r', '\l', '\f'} - Letters = {'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z'} - Digits = {'0'..'9'} IdentChars = {'a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '0'..'9', '_'} IdentStartChars = {'a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '_'} ## copied from strutils @@ -218,6 +216,9 @@ proc parseBiggestFloat*(s: string, number: var biggestFloat, start = 0): int = result = i - start proc parseFloat*(s: string, number: var float, start = 0): int = + ## parses a float starting at `start` and stores the value into `number`. + ## Result is the number of processed chars or 0 if there occured a parsing + ## error. var bf: biggestFloat result = parseBiggestFloat(s, bf, start) number = bf |