Pisco

It is a tiny parse transform, that allows to put an unescaped string inside a string comment.

It was originally developed for using regular expressions without escaping.

License: MIT

Author: Uvarov Michael (freeakk@gmail.com)

How it works

This parse_transform analyzes the unescaped attributes and comments abive them.

%Count> Comment
-unescaped(Name).

The comment consists of 2 parts, delemited by the greater-than sign (>). The parts are: The Count part contains how many characters to skip after >. Skipped characters are ignored by the parse transform. The Comment part stores an unescaped string.

The multi-line comments will be join with "".

%1> string 1
%1> string 2
-unescaped(example).

The whitespaces in the end of the string will be ignored.

We recommend to use a funtion for the access of the string:

example() -> unescaped(example).

The call of this function returns "string 1string 2".

Example 1

Before:

parse_date(Str) ->
    RE = "^(\\w*) (\\d{1,2}), (\\d{4})",
    re:run(Str, RE, [{capture, all, binary}]).

After:

-compile({parse_transform, pisco}).

%%1> ^(\w*) (\d{1,2}), (\d{4})
-unescaped(re1).
...
parse_date(Str) ->
    re:run(Str, unescaped(re1), [{capture, all, binary}]).