M-Code-Definitions with "="

[Sajuuk09]

Hello,

first I want to thank you for the time, you spent making this awesome VS-Code Extension. I really like it.
My Problem is, that my CNC-machine has some M-Codes, that i can't process normally.
For example, M4=3 means "spindle start, Main spindle, clockwise" whereas M3=3 means "spindle start, counterspindle, clockwise"
There is a whole bunch of these special M-Codes my machine ist using.
At the moment i am not able to use these definitions, even if i write them into the settings.json-file, because i think he stops at the "="-symbol and doesn't read further. It seems it is all just M4 or M3 for the program.
Unfortunately I am not a programmer, so I would like to ask you for your help. Is there a solution to this problem.
Thank you very much in advance and have a nice day.

Best regards

Ben

[scottmwyant]

I will have to update parsing logic. Looks like I could handle this by assuming key: value syntax to be used where the key includes a = character.

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Note to self:

\(\s*[A-Z0-9]{2,5}((=\d{1,5}\:\s)|\s?\=\s?|:\s)[a-zA-Z0-9\,\s]+\s*\)

vscode-gcode/src/dictionaryService/dictionary.ts

Line 48 in 211b595

const regex = /\(\s*[A-Z0-9]{2,5}\s*[:=]\s*[a-zA-Z0-9\,\s]+\s*\)/g;

Change characters being replaced (to form valid json) depending on presence of :. When colon is used, just replace with quotes, otherwise use current implementation.

vscode-gcode/src/dictionaryService/dictionary.ts

Line 41 in 211b595

comments = comments.map(comment => comment.replace(/\s*[:=]\s*/, '": "'));