[Haskell-cafe] How to use notFollowedBy function in Parsec

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Dienstag, 22. November 2005 14:51 schrieben Sie:
> Am Montag, 21. November 2005 03:27 schrieb Sara Kenedy:
>
> May I suggest
>
> endBy anyToken semi ? -- optionally replace semi by "char ';'", if you
^^^^^^^^

Oops, I confused endBy and manyTill !! Also below. 
And since maybe there isn't any semicolon, I'd say

manyTill anyToken (semi {- try semi, perhaps -} <|> eof)

> don't want to skip whitespace
>
> I think this is what you want --- stop at the first semicolon.
>
> If you want to ignore just a final semicolon, you might use
>
> endBy anyToken (optional semi >> eof),
>
> if you want to stop at the last semicolon, whatever comes thereafter, you
> have a problem, you'd need long lookahead.
>
 Cheers again,
 Daniel