This allows going back one character at a time, and then re-consume
previously consumed chars.
The code I need this for looks something like this:
ASSERT(lexer.consume_specific('\\'));
if (lexer.next_is("foo"))
...
lexer.retreat();
lexer.consume_escaped_character(); // This expects lexer.peek() == '\\'
This finally takes care of the kind-of excessive boilerplate code that were the
ctype adapters. On the other hand, I had to link `LibC/ctype.cpp` to the Kernel
(for `AK/JsonParser.cpp` and `AK/Format.cpp`). The previous commit actually makes
sense now: the `string.h` includes in `ctype.{h,cpp}` would require to link more LibC
stuff to the Kernel when it only needs the `_ctype_` array of `ctype.cpp`, and there
wasn't any string stuff used in ctype.
Instead of all this I could have put static derivatives of `is_any_of()` in the
concerned AK files, however that would have meant more boilerplate and workarounds;
so I went for the Kernel approach.
Since commit 1ec59f28ce turns the ctype macros
into functions we can now feed them directly to a GenericLexer! This will lead to
removing the ctype adapters that were kind-of excessive boilerplate, but needed as
the Kernel doesn't compile with the LibC.
The `consume_quoted_string()` can now take an escape character. This allows it
(for example) to capture a string's enclosing quotes. The escape character is
optional by default.
You can also consume and unescape a quoted string with the eponymous method
`consume_and_unescape_string()`. It takes an escape character as parameter
(backslash by default). It builds a String in which common escape sequences
get... unescaped :^) (e.g. \n, \r, \t...).
