Notepad++ Python Script for De-Analyzing Nested Parentheses and Comma-Separated Arguments. Posted to https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/1290590/thread/c17ed459/
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input_text = editor.getSelText() | |
EVENTS = 3 | |
STATES = 2 | |
state_table = [[[0,0] for x in range(EVENTS)] for x in range(STATES)] | |
event_list = [ "\"", "\n\r\t " ] # last event is anything that doesn't match one of the other actions | |
state_table[0] = [[1,0], [0,1], [0,0]] # normal state | |
state_table[1] = [[0,0], [1,0], [1,0]] # double-quote comment | |
output_text = "" | |
current_state = 0 | |
for z in input_text: | |
for a in range(len(event_list)): | |
if z in event_list[a]: | |
takeaction = state_table[current_state][a][1] | |
current_state = state_table[current_state][a][0] | |
break | |
else: | |
takeaction = state_table[current_state][-1][1] # this sets takeaction to the value when the test character does not match any event | |
current_state = state_table[current_state][-1][0] # this sets current_state to the value when the test character does not match any event | |
if takeaction == 0: | |
output_text += z # just pass the characters along | |
elif takeaction == 1: | |
pass # strip whitespace from the input outside of quotes | |
else: | |
pass # should raise error, since the state table includes more actions than are defined | |
editor.replaceSel(output_text) |
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This pairs with my other script. You can just use a regex to do the same thing, but I went with this in case I discover new rules for Excel formula grammar that I need to handle, or if I want to handle a custom kind of commenting that this script should strip.