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sr #110747: Include expected token in error messages

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Submitted:  Mon 24 Oct 2022 08:10:04 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Done
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Mon 31 Oct 2022 01:53:02 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It's a little harder than you think. A bison parser doesn't really know what it's `looking for', it knows it has a complete command when the rule reduces. In this case, for instance, it knows that none of the possible rule matches can have `done' as the next token.

If the bison lookahead set isn't private, I might be able to parse it out here, but we'll see.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Mon 24 Oct 2022 08:10:04 PM UTC, original submission:  

Say I have a while loop, and I have an if statement inside, like:

while true
do
    if something; then
        run code
done

And since I left out the fi there, then I get an error message "syntax error near unexpected token `done'".

Wouldn't it be possible to add an "Expected token 'fi'" to that error message? Since it must know what token it's expecting if 'done' is unexpected.

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