BNF for uniform resource location token using regex working in live preview but fail in application
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I am developing custom language and want to identify url token. Currently I am having following in bnf file
url="regexp:(https?://(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_+.~#?&/=]*))"
This is working in live preview,
but not in application it shows bad character for ":"
What is the correct way of identifying this type of token, I am new to this and found this w3 spec for url bnf here https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html is this the correct way?
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Going witch such regex right on the BNF level may not be the best way to handle URLs.
What's your goal regarding these URLs?
I just need to identify it as a url. What is the best way to do it? I am beginner for BNF and language plugin development.
> I just need to identify it as a url.
Ok, but what for?
Hit the url and get a response. Basically no plans for identifying tokens separately. What would be the best way to achieve this?
I'd avoid looking for the URLs in BNF using regex and handle it with lang.parserDefinition