mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar

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This repository contains a regular expression based language grammar for MATLAB to be used by GitHub Linguist for highlighting MATLAB code on GitHub

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Forks: 22
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 13

Dominant language: MATLAB
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Last GitHub push: Sep 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Many regexes incompatible with GitHub syntax highlighting Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#99 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2025
No syntax highlighting with exclamation point operator `!` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#98 · Opened Aug 29, 2025
Syntax highlighting for string formatting misses "% 8.2e" Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#97 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2025
Tokenization broken in class after nested function call with anonymous function Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#96 · Opened Feb 25, 2025
Incorrect tokenization with a list of classes in an `Access` field Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#95 · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Property Access Lists break syntax highlighting Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#92 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Parenthesis not tokenized correctly when there is space preceding it Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#77 · Opened Mar 5, 2024
Variables being tokenized as functions when indexing (i.e. using parens) Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#76 · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Escape characters are highlighted in character arrays Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#75 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2024
Function handle accessor not colored after 4 whitespaces, cannot be separated from anonymous function in case of line continuations Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#58 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2023
Property and function validation syntax tokenizes validation functions as keywords Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#53 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2023
syntax highlighting bug Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#65 · 3 comments · Opened May 11, 2023
expression of while loop is not syntax highlighted Open

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mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#46 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2022

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