From: Lance Pollard <lancejpollard@...>
Date: 2009-09-01T15:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Best Practice for Multiline Regexps

Thanks a lot Robert for your help.

> Which Tokenizer are you referring to?  Can you give more detail about
> your patterns or the kind of replacement you want to do?

I would like to be able to do code generation in a kind of preprocessor 
way for Actionscript, but I don't want to use a preprocessor because it 
seems like too much work (especially in actionscript or java), and I'd 
have to do pattern matching anyway :).

For example, I'd like to convert this:

[Bindable]
public function get myProperty():String {
     return _myProperty;
}
public function set myProperty(value:String):void {
     _myProperty = value;
}

... or this:

[Bindable] public var myProperty:String;

... or anything in between (different formatting...), to this:

[Bindable(event="myPropertyChange")]
public function get myProperty():String {
     return _myProperty;
}
public function set myProperty(value:String):void {
     _myProperty = value;
     dispatchEvent(new Event("myPropertyChange"));
}

.... That accessor little snippet can be from 1 to 20+ lines, and I'd 
like to be able to just add that line in there without having to run 
through the file a bunch of times.

There's a few other examples similar to that that I'd like to do to, but 
that's the gist of it.

Lance
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