Pep and Nom

index.html

This folder contains documentation about the commands that are available in the “Nom” language.

nom.add.html

add or appends the given text to the end of the workspace buffer.

nom.aminus.html

Decrement the pep counter register by one.

nom.aplus.html

Increment the pep accumulator register by one.

nom.cap.html

The cap command makes the text in the workspace buffer capital case

nom.clear.html

clear or delete the text in the workspace buffer.

nom.clip.html

clip one character from the end of the 'workspace' buffer (and send it into the void).

nom.clop.html

clop one character from the beginning of the workspace buffer.

nom.commands.html

An overview and of the commands that are available in the “Nom” language.

nom.count.html

The count command adds the value of the counter variable to the end of the workspace buffer.

nom.delim.html

The delim command changes the nom parse token delimiter to the given character.

nom.escape.html

The escape command puts an escape character in front of all occurences of the given character in the workspace buffer.

nom.get.html

The get command obtains the value in the current tape cell and adds it (appends it) to the end of the workspace buffer.

nom.go.html

go to the tape cell marked with the given name.

nom.lines.html

Append the number of lines read to the workspace buffer

nom.lower.html

Make all text in the workspace buffer lower case.

nom.mark.html

Mark the current tape cell with the given name.

nom.minusminus.html

Decrement the tape pointer by one.

nom.nochars.html

Set the automatic character counter register to zero (i.e. to nochars*)

nom.nolines.html

Sets the line number character counter to zero (i.e to nolines )

nom.plusplus.html

Increment the tape pointer by one .

nom.pop.html

pop a parse token off the stack into the front of the workspace buffer

nom.print.html

print the contents of the workspace buffer to stdout

nom.push.html

This pushes a grammar token onto the stack

nom.put.html

The put command places the entire contents of the workspace into the current tape cell, overwriting any previous value which that cell might have had. The put command takes no parameters and is written ...

nom.read.html

read one character from the input-stream.

nom.reparse.html

Jump to the parse> label in the script.

nom.replace.html

This command replaces one string with another in the workspace . The replace command is useful for indenting blocks of text during formatting operations, among other things. The replace command only replaces plain text strings, not regular expression patterns.

nom.restart.html

restart the script from the beginning

nom.stack.html

Push the entire workspace onto the stack regardless of token delimiters.

nom.swap.html

Swap the contents of the workspace buffer with the current tape cell

nom.unescape.html

unescape chars

nom.unstack.html

Pop the entire stack as a prefix into the workspace.

nom.until.html

Read the input stream until the given text is encountered, or until the end of the input stream (EOF) is encountered.

nom.upper.html

The upper command makes the text in the workspace buffer all upper case .

nom.whilenot.html

The whilenot command reads into the workspace buffer characters from the input stream while the peep buffer is not a certain character or characters. This is a “tokenizing” or “lexing” command and allows the input stream to be parsed up to a certain character without reading that character.

nom.while.html

Read the input stream while the peep register contains the given character class

nom.writefile.html

The writefile command writes the contents of the workspace buffer to the given file.

nom.write.html

sav.pp

nom.zero.html

Set the pep accumulator register to zero