@agarimo/lexer v1.0.0

@agarimo/lexer

Introduction

This package provides the class Lexer that is the basic class to build parsers.

Installation

You can install it using NPM

  npm i @agarimo/lexer

Token Types

• Identifier: 1
• Number: 2
• String: 3
• Operator: 4
• Separator: 5
• EndOfLine: 6
• Assignment: 7
• EndOfFile: 8

Example of use

const { Lexer } = require('@agarimo/lexer');

const script = `
n = 0
while n < 10:
  n += 1
print("hola")
`

const lexer = new Lexer();
lexer.init(script);
let token;
while (!token || token.type !== Lexer.TokenType.EndOfFile) {
  token = lexer.nextToken();
  console.log(token);
}

This will show in console:

Token { value: 'n', type: 1 }
Token { value: '=', type: 7 }
Token { value: '0', type: 2 }
Token { value: '\n', type: 6 }
Token { value: 'while', type: 1 }
Token { value: 'n', type: 1 }
Token { value: '<', type: 4 }
Token { value: '10', type: 2 }
Token { value: ':', type: 5 }
Token { value: '\n', type: 6 }
Token { value: 'n', type: 1 }
Token { value: '+=', type: 7 }
Token { value: '1', type: 2 }
Token { value: '\n', type: 6 }
Token { value: 'print', type: 1 }
Token { value: '(', type: 5 }
Token { value: 'hola', type: 3 }
Token { value: ')', type: 5 }
Token { value: '', type: 8 }