Somewhat based on python.def MATLAB jsp syntax highlighting for Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible

matlab.def

# MATLAB jsp syntax highlighting for Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible
# 
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14916809/defining-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-atlassian-fisheye-crucible-matlab
syntaxdef matlab {

# whitespace
/\s+/m : ;

# comments
/%.*?$/m : {
      region {
         type=comment;
         index=prose;
         findlinks=true;
      }
   }

# strings
/(?s)((u|U)?(r|R)?)("""|''')(.*?)\4/ : {
      region {
         type=string;
      }

      region ${5} {
         index=prose;         
      }  
}


# keywords
/(for|end|if|while|function|return|elseif|case|otherwise|switch|continue|else|try|catch|global|persistent\
|break|ans|beep|pi|eps|inf|NaN|nan|i|j|nargin|nargout|realmin|realmax|bitmax|varargin|varargout)\b/ : {
      region {
        type=keyword;
        index=word;
      }
  }

#identifiers
/[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/ : {
      region {
         type=identifier;
         index=word;
      }
  }

#numeric literals
/(0(x|X)[0-9A-Fa-f]+(l|L)?)|([0-9]+(\.[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+)((e|E)(\+|-)?[0-9]+)?(l|L|j|J)?/ : {
       region {
          type=numeric;
       }
   }
}