<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>optionalSignParser -- a parser that accepts an optional plus sign or minus sign</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___N__N__Parser.html">next</a> | <a href="_const__Parser.html">previous</a> | <a href="___N__N__Parser.html">forward</a> | <a href="_const__Parser.html">backward</a> | <a href="___Parser.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="a framework for building parsers">Parsing</a> > <a href="___Parser.html" title="the class of all parsers">Parser</a> > <a href="_optional__Sign__Parser.html" title="a parser that accepts an optional plus sign or minus sign">optionalSignParser</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>optionalSignParser -- a parser that accepts an optional plus sign or minus sign</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><p>The return value is either <tt>1</tt> or <tt>-1</tt>, depending on the indicated sign.</p> <table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : (optionalSignParser @ constParser "abc" : charAnalyzer) "abc" o1 = (1, abc) o1 : Sequence</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : (optionalSignParser @ constParser "abc" : charAnalyzer) "+abc" o2 = (1, abc) o2 : Sequence</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : (optionalSignParser @ constParser "abc" : charAnalyzer) "-abc" o3 = (-1, abc) o3 : Sequence</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_and__P.html" title="parser conjunction">Parser @ Parser</a> -- parser conjunction</span></li> <li><span><a href="_const__Parser.html" title="produce a parser that accepts a fixed string, one character at a time">constParser</a> -- produce a parser that accepts a fixed string, one character at a time</span></li> <li><span><a href="_char__Analyzer.html" title="a lexical analyzer that provides characters from a string one at a time">charAnalyzer</a> -- a lexical analyzer that provides characters from a string one at a time</span></li> <li><span><a href="___Parser_sp_co_sp__Analyzer.html" title="combine a parser with a lexical analyzer to make a complete system">Parser : Analyzer</a> -- combine a parser with a lexical analyzer to make a complete system</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><div class="single"><h2>Code</h2> <pre>../Parsing.m2:155:31-155:135: --source code: optionalSignParser = Parser(c -> if c === null then 1 else if c === "-" then terminalParser(-1) else if c === "+" then terminalParser 1)</pre> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>