C# Syntax Highlighter

I am having some problems with multiline comments stripping the color from other text.

PHP Code:

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function cshilite($code)
{

    $code = str_replace("<br>", "", $code);
    $code = str_replace("<br />", "", $code);
    $code = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $code);
    $code = str_replace("&lt;", "<", $code);
    $code = str_replace("&quot;", "\\"", $code);
    $code = str_replace("&amp;", "&", $code);
    $code = str_replace('$', '\\$', $code);
    $code = str_replace('\\n', '\\\\\\\\n', $code);
    $code = str_replace('\\r', '\\\\\\\\r', $code);
    $code = str_replace('\\t', '\\\\\\\\t', $code);

    $code = stripslashes($code);

    $code = htmlentities($code);

    $keywords = array('abstract', 'event', 'new', 'struct', 'as', 'explicit', 'null', 'switch', 'base', 'extern', 'object', 'this', 'bool', 'false', 'operator', 'throw', 'break', 'finally', 'out', 'true', 'byte', 'fixed', 'override', 'try', 'case', 'float', 'params', 'typeof', 'catch', 'for', 'private', 'uint', 'char', 'foreach', 'protected', 'ulong', 'checked', 'goto', 'public', 'unchecked', 'class', 'if', 'readonly', 'unsafe', 'const', 'implicit', 'ref', 'ushort', 'continue', 'in', 'return', 'using', 'decimal', 'int', 'sbyte', 'virtual', 'default', 'interface', 'sealed', 'volatile', 'delegate', 'internal', 'short', 'void', 'do', 'is', 'sizeof', 'while', 'double', 'lock', 'stackalloc', 'else', 'long', 'static', 'enum', 'namespace', 'string');

    for ($x = 0; $x < count($keywords); $x++) { 
        $pattern = '/(^|[^a-zA-Z0-9#@_\\'\\"])(' . $keywords[$x] . ')([^a-zA-Z0-9#_\\'\\"]|$)/'; 
        $code = preg_replace($pattern, '\\\\1<font color="blue">\\\\2</font>\\\\3', $code); 
    }

    $single = '/((^|[^(https?|ftp|gopher|irc|news|telnet):])\\/\\/(.*?))([\\r\\n]|$)/is'; 

    if (preg_match_all($single, $code, $match)) 
    { 
        $return = preg_replace('/<font color=(.*?)>(.*?)<\\/font>/','\\\\2',$match[0]); 
        $return = preg_replace($single,'<font color="green">\\\\1</font>\\\\4',$return); 
        $code = str_replace($match[0],$return,$code); 
    }

    $multi = '/(\\/\\*(.*?)(\\*\\/|$))/is'; 

    if (preg_match_all($multi, $code, $match)) 
    { 
        $return = preg_replace('/<font color=(.*?)>(.*?)<\\/font>/','\\\\2',$match[0]); 
        $return = preg_replace($multi,'<font color="green">\\\\1</font>',$return); 
        $code = str_replace($match[0],$return,$code); 
    }

    $spattern = '/(\\&quot;(.*?)[^\\\\\\]&quot;)/is';

    if (preg_match_all($spattern, $code, $match)) 
    { 
        $return = preg_replace('/<font color=(.*?)>(.*?)<\\/font>/','\\\\2',$match[0]); 
        $return = preg_replace($spattern,'\\\\1',$return); 
        $code = str_replace($match[0],$return,$code); 
    }

    $code = str_replace("&quot;", "\\"", $code);
    $code = str_replace("<br>", "", str_replace("<br />", "", $code));

    return "<blockquote><pre><smallfont>CSharp Code:</smallfont><hr size=1><br />" . $code . "<hr size=1></pre></blockquote>";
} 


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care to provide any C# code so that i can see what it looks like when you are submitting your script? i don't know C#..

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Originally posted by kows
care to provide any C# code so that i can see what it looks like when you are submitting your script? i don't know C#..

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I'm giving his script a wirl right now to see if I can figure it out, but all you need is a block comment, same as C++ and PHP:

PHP Code:

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/*
   multiline block comment
*/ 


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Only the /* will be green, instead of the whole thing.

Example:

Code:

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private void test(object obj)
{
  // single line comment 1
  string[] mystring = new string[10];
  /* multiline
      comment */
  // another single line comment
}

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The pattern in the comment regexp needs to be rewritten. I am at work atm but I will start on it again when I get home.

Ok I have 2 patterns made for commenting multiline and single line comments an they appear to work fine apart from each other. Problem is I need to have one expression to do this otherwise it will not be following standards if someone adds comment code inside a comment. Heres what I have now.

Patterns:

PHP Code:

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$cpattern[0] = '/(\\/\\*(.*?)(\\*\\/|$))/is';
$cpattern[1] = '/((^|[^(https?|ftp|gopher|irc|news|telnet):])\\/\\/(.*?)([\\r\\n]|$))/is';

for ($x = 0; $x < 2; $x++)
{
    if (preg_match_all($cpattern[$x], $code, $match))
    {
        $return = preg_replace('/<font color=(.*?)>(.*?)<\\/font>/','\\\\2',$match[0]);
        $return = preg_replace($cpattern[$x],'<font color="green">\\\\1</font>',$return);
        $code = str_replace($match[0],$return,$code);
        }
    }
} 


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I forgot to parse strings.

So far I know of 2 errors.

1. /* in a single line comment will be read as multiline until it hits */ or end of code

2. // or /* in a string causes color disfunction