SlimIt – multiline string support

I made some changes to the lexer and now SlimiIt can handle JavaScript string literals that span multiple lines.
In JavaScript, as in Python, continuation lines can be used with a backslash as the last character on the line indicating that the next line is a continuation of the line.

Here is a simple example:

$ cat test.js
var s = "hello \
    \
    world\
    ";
$
$ cat test.js | slimit -m -t
var a="hello         world    ";

Tagged as: compilers, javascript, minifier