Hello World in Ragel/C#

I’m trying to get started with Ragel, and found a hello world example for ruby that got me past Go. Since the C# example was a bit different, I thought I’d share what I came up with.

 1 %%{
 2   machine hello;
 3   expr = ‘h’;
 4   main := expr @ { Console.Out.WriteLine("greetings!"); } ;
 5 }%%
 6
 7 using System;
 8
 9 namespace Mab.Test
10 {
11   public class Hello
12   {
13 %% write data;
14     public static void Main(string [] args)
15     {
16       foreach(var arg in args)
17       {
18         Console.WriteLine("***** " + arg + " ******");
19         Run(arg);
20       }
21     }
22
23     private static void Run(String data)
24     {
25       int cs;
26       int p = 0;
27       int pe = data.Length;
28       // init:
29       %% write init;
30       // exec:
31       %% write exec;
32     }
33   }
34 }

To see how it works, save the following code to Hello.rl and run these commands:

ragel -A Hello.rl
csc /t:exe /out:test.exe Hello.cs
test.exe a h z