Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] Syntax error with :

I think we could try this:

 ^{IDENT}:/[ \t\n]  { char *pp = yytext;

to match at the start of the line only.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM Victor Lazzarini
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Do you remember what version used to work?
> This I think is a lexer error, picked up here
>
> {IDENT}:/[ \t\n]  { char *pp = yytext;
>                   while (*pp==' ' || *pp=='\t') pp++;
>                   *lvalp = make_label(csound, pp); return LABEL_TOKEN;
>                 }
>
> so it looks like it was there from the beginning of the new parser.
>
> Not sure how it could be disambiguated as anything forming that pattern is read as a label.
> I guess that rule would have to be changed not to make a label but something that could later be disambiguated in the parser.
>
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> On 27 Oct 2025, at 22:36, Eduardo Moguillansky <[email protected]> wrote:
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> This line gives an error:
>
> k2 = k0 > 0 ? k0: -1
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected LABEL_TOKEN  (token "k0:") from file xxx.csd (1)
>
> It is ok if the ":" has a space before the variable
>
> k2 = k0 > 0 ? k0 : -1
>
> The code used to work some months ago, so this might be a recent change. I guess it should not be difficult to disambiguate the parsing, since a label should start a line.
>
> Thanks,
> Eduardo
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