Re: Grammar for ls -l output

Since month ends with s, the " "? at the beginning of day is never going to 
match, since you've already consumed all the spaces.

If you don't care if you get day="7", then just delete the +"0".

If you require "07", then use 

day: d, d; +"0", d.

Steven

On Tuesday 13 January 2026 00:02:43 (+01:00), Peter Flynn wrote:

 > On 09/01/2026 22:57, Steven Pemberton wrote:
 > >> May I please use it as a second example [...]
 > > Of course.
 > 
 > I've done a little editing to create a format suitable for the less 
technical user.
 > 
 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter    94 Apr 26  2025 acctflaws.aux
 > 
 > now appears as
 > 
 > <file type='normal' links='1' owner='peter' group='peter' size='94' 
month='04' day='026' year='2025'>
 >   <permissions user='read/write/noexec' group='read/write/noexec' 
other='read/nowrite/noexec'/>
 >   <name>acctflaws.aux</name>
 > </file>
 > 
 > ...which contains a bug for @day: I was hoping to get this out for 
@MarkupMonday but that's not going to happen.
 > 
 > ======================================= 8< ===========================
 > {iXML representation of the output of the ls -l command}
 > 
 > filelist: space?,file*.
 > @space: -[L]+,s,n,-#a.
 > -s: -" "+.
 > n: ["0"-"9"]+.
 > 
 > file: 
type,permissions,links,owner,group,size,month,day,(year;time),name,-#a.
 > 
 > @type: (-"-",+"normal";
 >         -"b",+"block special";
 >  -"c",+"character special";
 >  -"d",+"directory";
 >  -"l",+"symbolic link";
 >  -"p",+"pipe";
 >  -"n",+"network";
 >  -"s",+"socket").
 > {unused: 
C=contigdata,D=door(Solaris),M=offline(Cray),P=port(Solaris),?=other}
 > permissions: user,group,other,s.
 > 
 > @user:  (-"r",+"read";-"-",+"noread"),
 >  (-"w",+"/write/";-"-",+"/nowrite/"),
 >  (-"x",+"exec";-"-",+"noexec";
 >   -"s",+"setid";-"t",+"sticky").
 > @group: (-"r",+"read";-"-",+"noread"),
 >  (-"w",+"/write/";-"-",+"/nowrite/"),
 >  (-"x",+"exec";-"-",+"noexec";
 >   -"s",+"setid";-"t",+"sticky").
 > @other: (-"r",+"read";-"-",+"noread"),
 >  (-"w",+"/write/";-"-",+"/nowrite/"),
 >  (-"x",+"exec";-"-",+"noexec";
 >   -"s",+"setid";-"t",+"sticky").
 > {unused: S=noxsetid,T=noxsticky}
 > 
 > @links: n,s.
 > 
 > @owner: id.
 > @group: id.
 > -id: ~[" "]+, s.
 > 
 > @size: n,s.
 > 
 > @month: (-"Jan",+"01";-"Feb",+"02";-"Mar",+"03";
 >          -"Apr",+"04";-"May",+"05";-"Jun",+"06";
 >    -"Jul",+"07";-"Aug",+"08";-"Sep",+"09";
 >    -"Oct",+"08";-"Nov",+"11";-"Dec",+"12"),s.
 > @day: -" "?,+"0",["0"-"9"],["0"-"9"]?,s.
 > @year: n,s.
 > @time: n,":",n,s.
 > 
 > name: ~[#a]+.
 > 
 > Peter
 > 
 > 
 >

Received on Monday, 12 January 2026 23:35:37 UTC