Notepad++ Function list for SQL - plsql

Question

quick question .. I'm trying to get the function list option in Notepad++ going ...
Now, I found this thread:
Notepad++ Function List for PL/SQL
which helped get me started, however, I'm still struggling with something, and I can't seem to wrap my monkey-brain around it.
It'll be this section I need to focus:
<function
mainExpr="^[\t ]*(FUNCTION|PROCEDURE)[\s]*[\w]*[\s]*(\(|IS|AS)*"
displayMode="$functionName">
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr="[\w]+[\s]*(\(|IS|AS)"/>
</functionName>
</function>
That works perfectly fine .. so far.
However, I would like to also see PACKAGE header and PACKAGE BODY names in there as well .. just to help tidy things up.
I figured it'd be easy to tweak the RegExp, however, nothing I've tried is working
So I'm trying to pick out these kinds of scenarios:
CREATE PACKAGE aaa
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE bbb
CREATE PACKAGE BODY ccc
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY ddd
all 4: aaa, bbb, ccc, and ddd.
I can't even get it to pull back one yet.. :(
Hoping I could get some help/hints/something ..
I know this is the main "logic":
mainExpr="^[\t ]*(FUNCTION|PROCEDURE)[\s]*[\w]*[\s]*(\(|IS|AS)*"
that finds the line(s) ..
And trying to matchup the logic with what it finds for .. say, FUNCTIONs, and what I want for PACKAGE ... I tried this:
mainExpr="^[\t ]*(FUNCTION|PROCEDURE|CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE)[\s]*[\w]*[\s]*(\(|IS|AS)*"
but even that doesn't pick out the header! O.o
I'm sure there's something I need to do with the part .. but again, not really understanding how it works ??
I've read this :
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/function-list.html
but there's obviously something about the syntax/usage of this thing I'm not fully understanding ..
hoping somebody can help me out?

Answer 1

I think your problem is coming from the Regex rather than anything you're doing incorrectly. I've made a new parser based on the one I found here: http://www.hermanmol.nl/?p=240
<parser id="plsql_func" displayName="PL/SQL" commentExpr="((/\*.*?\*)/|(--.*?$))">
<function
mainExpr="^[\w\s]{0,}(PACKAGE BODY|PACKAGE|FUNCTION|PROCEDURE)[\s]{1,}[\w_]{1,}">
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr="^[\w\s]{0,}(PACKAGE BODY|PACKAGE|FUNCTION|PROCEDURE)[\s]{1,}\K[\w_]{1,}"/>
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>
For me this seems to correctly pull out the Package, Procedures and Functions.
One thing to note however, I could not get this to work using a file extension assocation, and used the following instead to test on a text file: <association langID= "0" id="plsql_func" />
I also placed the updated functionList.xml file in both the Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ and the Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ directories.
Edit - a short explanation of the Regex, I'm not great at Regex but it was requested in the comments
^[\w\s]{0,} - From the beginning of the line, find 0 or more letters or white space characters
(PACKAGE BODY|PACKAGE|FUNCTION|PROCEDURE) - followed by any of these
[\s]{1,}[\w_]{1,} - followed by one or more spaces, followed by one or more words

Answer 2

Thanks Chrisrs2292,
I was helped by the location of the functionList.xml file in Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ directories.
RegEX for T-SQL:
<association id= "T-SQL_func" langID="17"/>
<!-- T-SQL-->
<parser displayName="T-SQL" id="T-SQL_func" commentExpr="(?s:/\*.*?\*/)|(?m-s:--.*?$)">
<function mainExpr='(?im)^\h*(create|alter)\s+(function|procedure)\s+((\[|")?[\w_]+(\]|")?\.?)?((\[|")?[\w_]+(\]|")?)?'
displayMode="$functionName">
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr='(?im)(function|procedure)\s+((\[|")?[\w_]+(\]|")?\.?)?((\[|")?[\w_]+(\]|")?)?' />
</functionName>
</function>

Answer 3

Working from what Chrisrs2292 has provided from above, I played around with some PL/SQL code on regex101.com to find a regular expression to find the functions/procedures/etc, and got put that into the functionList.xml.
<parser
displayName="SQL Node"
id="sql_node"
commentExpr="((/\*.*?\*)/|(--.**$))"
>
<function
mainExpr="^[\w\s]+(PACKAGE BODY|PACKAGE|PROCEDURE|FUNCTION)\s+[\w"\.]+"
>
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr="^[\w\s]+(PACKAGE BODY|PACKAGE|PROCEDURE|FUNCTION)\s+\K[\w"\.]+"/>
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>
The big change was I had include the double quotes (using the XML code of ") and dot (the \.) since many times I use the quotes and like to use the fully qualified name (schema.procedure|function|etc). Minor changes are replacing the {0,} with * and {1,} with +. These are minor, cosmetic changes are should be interchangeable.