I've recently been creating quite a few Sublime Text 3 plugins/snippets/etc. to automate repetitive tasks. The current one I am stuck on uses regex in a snippet to get my default skeleton for a new function.
Ideally, I would like the snippet would generate something similar to:
// Multiple Args (one arg would obviously look like (..." + "a: " + a + ")");)
function Foo(a, b, c)
{
Log.AppendFolder("Foo(" + "a: " + a + ", b: " + b + ", c: " + c + ")");
//body
Log.PopLogFolder();
}
// Zero Args
function Foo()
{
Log.AppendFolder("Foo()");
//body
Log.PopLogFolder();
}
So far, I can get it formatted with 1 argument or many arguments, not all possible combos (zero, one, many).
The outline is current this, I just need to figure out the second ${2}
with regex:
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[
function ${1:function_name}(${2:arguments})
{
Log.AppendFolder("$1(" + ${2/(?#stuck here)//} + ")");
${3://body}
Log.PopLogFolder();
}$0]]></content>
<tabTrigger>fun</tabTrigger>
<scope>source.js</scope>
<description>Function Template</description>
</snippet>
One Arg:
"$1(" + ${2/^([A-z0-9_-]*),?.*/"\1\: " + \1 + /}");"
Many Args (with 1 arg, this shows "a: " + a + a
):
"$1(" + ${2/^([A-z0-9_-]*),?(.*)/"\1\: " + \1 + /}${2/([A-z0-9_-]*)(?:, *([A-z0-9_-]*))/"$2\: " + $2 + /g}");"
One method worked by had an extra + "" +
in there, which I'd like to avoid:
${2/([A-z_0-9]+)((?:, ?)?)/"\1\: " + \1 + "\2" + /g}
I've tried a conditional look-ahead based on commas, but that gets messed up >1 arg, probably due to my lack of understanding of them:
${2/(?(?!,)^([A-z0-9_-]*)$|([A-z0-9_-]*), *)/"\1\: " + \1/g}
I could easily do this via a normal plugin (this is easy programmatically), but ideally this can remain a snippet/code-completion since I can just override the JS "fun" code-completion.
What am I missing to accomplish this (or is it simply the wrong avenue - if that's the case, I'd still like to know to learn more about regex)?