what a great Generic preprocessor! • Command line argument so that replaced empty lines are deleted

[schittli]

Good evening Christophe

thank you very much for your great work - and sharing it!, it's a really great Software.

I only have just one flaw: It would be ingenious if one could activate this function via a command line argument:

1. The preprocessor reads a macro
2. If the preprocessor processed a line and the line has just white spaces,
3. then this line will automatically be is deleted

The background is, that the processed result often has a lot of empty lines, for example, lines 2 to 4 are just used for debugging:

Macro:

    while thisBlock != null && res === null
        !ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nidxN Test: ", idxN))
        !ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nthisBlock: ", thisBlock))
        !ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nthisBlock.type: ", thisBlock.type))
        if thisBlock.type == !2
        …

The result has an 3 empty line because the comment had to be removed:

    while thisBlock != null && res === null

        if thisBlock.type == Arg2
        …

Thanks a lot, kind regards, Thomas

[tajmone]

Another solution could be to introduce a built-in macro to delete/omit the whole line from the generated output, which could then be inserted in the else clauses of examples like the above.

[CDSoft]

Hello, Modifying text outside macros may have undesirable effects in some cases. You can also manage the layout in the arguments of the macros. e.g.:

        !ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nidxN Test: ", idxN)
        )!ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nthisBlock: ", thisBlock)
        )!ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nthisBlock.type: ", thisBlock.type)
        )if thisBlock.type == !2
        …

or

        !ifeq(!3)(1)(print("\nidxN Test: ", idxN)
        print("\nthisBlock: ", thisBlock)
        print("\nthisBlock.type: ", thisBlock.type)
        )if thisBlock.type == !2
        …

[schittli]

Thank you very much!, @CDSoft for your support and this cool trick!, I had to think 3 times before I understood what was happening here 😅