Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

[Xah Lee]

On Jul 19, 10:33 am, Billy Mays
<81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9... at myhashismyemail.com> wrote:
> On 07/19/2011 01:14 PM,XahLee wrote:
>
> > I added other unicode brackets to your list of brackets, but it seems
> > your code still fail to catch a file that has mismatched curly quotes.
> > (e.g.http://xahlee.org/p/time_machine/tm-ch04.html )
>
> > LOL Billy.
>
> >  Xah
>
> I suspect its due to the file mode being opened with 'rb' mode.  Also,
> the diction of characters at the top, the closing token is the key,
> while the opening one is the value.  Not sure if thats obvious.
>
> Also returning the position of the first mismatched pair is somewhat
> ambiguous.  File systems store files as streams of octets (mine do
> anyways) rather than as characters.  When you ask for the position of
> the the first mismatched pair, do you mean the position as per
> file.tell() or do you mean the nth character in the utf-8 stream?
>
> Also, you may have answered this earlier but I'll ask again anyways: You
> ask for the first mismatched pair, Are you referring to the inner most
> mismatched, or the outermost?  For example, suppose you have this file:
>
> foo[(])bar
>
> Would the "(" be the first mismatched character or would the "]"?

yes i haven't been precise. Thanks for brining it up.

thinking about it now, i think it's a bit hard to define precisely. My
elisp code actually reports the “)”, so it's wrong too. LOL

 Xah