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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @fileoverview
+ * Register a language handler for Chapel.
+ *
+ * https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/tree/master/highlight used to get the knowledge about Chapel highlighting tools .
+ * https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel-tmbundle/blob/master/Syntaxes/Chapel.tmLanguage#L60-L83 as the bases for keywords and literals
+ *
+ * @author suryapriy1997@gmail.com
+ */
+
+PR['registerLangHandler'](
+    PR['createSimpleLexer'](
+        [
+		    // Whitespace 
+            [PR['PR_PLAIN'], /^[\t\n\r \xA0]+/, null, '\t\n\r \xA0'],
+			// punctuation - symbols present 
+            [PR['PR_PUNCTUATION'], /^[.!%&()*+,\-;<=>?\[\\\]^{|}:]+/, null, '.!%&()*+,-;<=>?[\\]^{|}:']
+        ],
+		
+        [
+         [PR['PR_KEYWORD'],     
+	            /^(?:align|as|atomic|begin|break|by|catch|class|cobegin|coforall|continue|delete|dmapped|do|else|enum|except|export|extern|for|forall|if|index|inline|in|iter|label|lambda|let|local|module|new|noinit|on|only|otherwise|pragma|private|proc|prototype|public|record|reduce|require|return|scan|select|serial|then|throw|throws|try|union|use|var|when|where|while|with|yield|zip|bool|real|int|uint|imag|complex|dmap|domain|string|range|sync|tuple|config|const|param|private|public|sparse|single|type|enum)\b/, null],	 
+            [PR['PR_LITERAL'], 
+			             /^(?:true|false|null)\b/],
+            // literals
+            [PR['PR_LITERAL'],
+                     			/^(0[xX][0-9a-fA-F_]+L?|0[bB][0-1]+L?|[0-9_.]+([eE]-?[0-9]+)?[fFL]?)/],
+            [PR['PR_TYPE'], 
+			                    /^(\b[A-Z]+[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_$@]*|`.*`)/, null],
+            //double slash comments
+            [PR['PR_COMMENT'],
+                        			/^\/\/.*/],
+            //slash star comments and documentation
+            [PR['PR_COMMENT'],
+                     			/^\/\*[\s\S]*?(?:\*\/|$)/],
+            // char
+            [PR['PR_STRING'],
+                     			/'.'/],
+            // string
+            [PR['PR_STRING'], 
+			                   /^"([^"\\]|\\[\s\S])*"/],
+            // multiline string
+            [PR['PR_STRING'], 
+			                     /^"{3}[\s\S]*?[^\\]"{3}/],
+            // annotation (and label)
+            [PR['PR_LITERAL'], 
+			                    /^@([a-zA-Z0-9_$@]*|`.*`)/],
+            // label definition
+            [PR['PR_LITERAL'], 
+			                    /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@/]
+        ]),
+		['chapel']);