CppCommentState

This state will either delegate to a comment-handling state, or return a token with just a slash in it.

Extends: GenericCommentState

Description

The CppCommentState class allows you to create a state that will either delegate to a comment-handling state, or return a token with just a slash in it.

Fields

STAR

Represents a star (*) char

static STAR: int = ‘*'.codeUnitAt(0)

SLASH

Represents a forward slash (/) char.

static SLASH: int = ‘/'.codeUnitAt(0)

Instance methods

getMultiLineComment

Ignores everything up to a closing star and slash, and then returns the tokenizer’s next token.

String getMultiLineComment(IScanner scanner)

  • scanner: IScanner - scanner
  • returns: String - comment

getSingleLineComment

Ignores everything up to an end-of-line, and then returns the tokenizer’s next token.

String getSingleLineComment(IScanner scanner)

  • scanner: IScanner - scanner
  • returns: String - comment

nextToken

Either delegates to a comment-handling state, or returns a token with just a slash in it.

@override

Token? nextToken(IScanner scanner, ITokenizer? tokenizer)

  • scanner: IScanner - text string to be tokenized.
  • tokenizer: ITokenizer? - tokenizer class that controls the process.
  • returns: Token? - next token from the top of the stream.