[Automation] Allow for multiline expressions in 'Import rules' script

[nommygit]

As discussed here: https://discord.com/channels/558398674389172225/1190169064383991858/1378268470164066306
Allow for something like this:

condition: (eq (sig Signals.A1.Inventory.Water) (sig Signals.A1.Inventory.Water))
action: <<<
    (act Signals.Set 'A1.Inventory.Water.Level' 
        (div 
            (sig Signals.A1.Inventory.Water.Sum) 
            (sig Signals.A1.Inventory.Water.Capacity.Sum)
        )
    )
>>>

It would help improve readability for complex calculations etc but is just aesthetics, so not important.

[ihsoft]

I wonder if there are "commonly recognized" approaches to this. E.g. if some editor already supports it, we can use it.

[nommygit]

Well, I (meaning DeepSeek or Copilot etc) could modify the vs code language extension I (we) did before to understand <<< and >>>.
It would be just a matter of tweaking a regex to get highlighting and matching (like brackets) to work I'm fairly sure.

For warnings etc it might need more work as that might require using typescript and compiling the extension, but it's certainly doable too.

But what sort of editor features did you have in mind?

Also, I'd imagine the 'common approach' would probably be to not allow multi-line statements or to make the parser so it ignores white-space like newlines.

[nommygit]

Maybe you meant an in game editor?

[nommygit]

Here's some regex search/replace c# code that takes a multi-line string and formats it to the import format used now - 1 line per action/condition. Running input string through this should do the trick I think without the need for <<< or anything and it removes (allows) inline comments too.

[ihsoft]

Using regex will not allow tracking the line number. And it's really useful to know at which line the import failed.