Nasser O. Alshammari

17 papers Journal 15Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
J. Big Data
Ahmed Alsayat, Alshimaa Abdelraof Mahmoud, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa, Nasser O. Alshammari, Majed Abdullah Alrowaily, Hosameldeen Shabana, Mohamed M. Ezz
2024 J jnl
Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng.
Nasser O. Alshammari, Shumaila Shahzadi, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Shahid Naseem, Muhammad Anwar, Maddalah Alruwaili, Muhammad Rizwan Abid, Omar Alruwali, Ahmed Alsayat, Fahad Ahmad
2023 J jnl
J. Comput. Sci. Coll.
Waleed Alhumud, Abdullah Alenzi, Renée C. Bryce, Yuan Li, Nasser O. Alshammari
2022 J jnl
J. Comput. Sci. Coll.
Abdullah Alenzi, Waleed Alhumud, Renée C. Bryce, Nasser O. Alshammari
2022 J jnl
ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.
Nasser O. Alshammari, Fawaz D. Alharbi
2022 J jnl
Comput. Intell. Neurosci.
Tayyabah Hasan, Fahad Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Nasser O. Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Iftikhar Hussain, Shahid Naseem
2022 J jnl
J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci.
Mavra Mehmood, Nasser O. Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Asma Basharat, Fahad Ahmad, Muhammad Sajjad, Kashaf Junaid
2022 J jnl
Sensors
Muhammad Munir Ud Din, Nasser O. Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Fahad Ahmad, Shahid Naseem, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Hafiz Syed Imran Haider
2022 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Amna Bamaqa, Mohamed H. Sedky, Tomasz Bosakowski, Benhur Bakhtiari Bastaki, Nasser O. Alshammari
2022 J jnl
Complex.
Marium Mehmood, Nasser O. Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Fahad Ahmad
2022 J jnl
IET Commun.
Nasser O. Alshammari, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, M. M. Kamruzzaman, Madallah Alruwaili, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Md Lamiur Raihan, Salman Ali AlQahtani
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Saad Awadh Alanazi, Madallah Alruwaili, Fahad Ahmad, Alaa S. Alaerjan, Nasser O. Alshammari
2020 J jnl
Data
Nasser O. Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi
2018
Nasser O. Alshammari
2018 J jnl
Data
Talal Sarheed Alshammari, Nasser O. Alshammari, Mohamed H. Sedky, Chris Howard
2017 J jnl
Sensors
Nasser O. Alshammari, Talal Sarheed Alshammari, Mohamed H. Sedky, Justin Champion, Carolin Bauer
2015 conf
HCI (22)
Nasser O. Alshammari, Alexios Mylonas, Mohamed H. Sedky, Justin Champion, Carolin Bauer
src/highlight.rs
← Index src/highlight.rs rust
use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
use regex::Regex;
use std::collections::HashMap;

/// Highlighting rules for a "family" of languages.
struct LangRule {
    line_comments: &'static [&'static str],
    block_comments: &'static [(&'static str, &'static str)],
    /// If true, enables strings delimited by " and '
    strings: bool,
    /// If true, also enables triple-quoted strings (Python)
    triple_quote: bool,
    /// If true, also enables backtick template strings (JS/TS)
    backtick: bool,
    /// If true, keywords are matched case-insensitively (e.g. SQL)
    case_insensitive_keywords: bool,
    keywords: &'static [&'static str],
}

const EMPTY_KW: &[&str] = &[];

fn rule_for(lang: &str) -> LangRule {
    match lang {
        "rust" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "as", "break", "const", "continue", "crate", "dyn", "else", "enum", "extern",
                "false", "fn", "for", "if", "impl", "in", "let", "loop", "match", "mod", "move",
                "mut", "pub", "ref", "return", "self", "Self", "static", "struct", "super",
                "trait", "true", "type", "unsafe", "use", "where", "while", "async", "await",
                "union",
            ],
        },
        "python" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: true,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "False", "None", "True", "and", "as", "assert", "async", "await", "break",
                "class", "continue", "def", "del", "elif", "else", "except", "finally", "for",
                "from", "global", "if", "import", "in", "is", "lambda", "nonlocal", "not", "or",
                "pass", "raise", "return", "try", "while", "with", "yield", "self",
            ],
        },
        "javascript" | "typescript" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: true,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "break", "case", "catch", "class", "const", "continue", "debugger", "default",
                "delete", "do", "else", "export", "extends", "finally", "for", "function", "if",
                "import", "in", "instanceof", "new", "return", "super", "switch", "this", "throw",
                "try", "typeof", "var", "void", "while", "with", "yield", "let", "static",
                "async", "await", "of", "null", "true", "false", "undefined", "interface",
                "type", "enum", "implements", "namespace", "readonly", "public", "private",
                "protected", "abstract", "as", "declare", "from", "get", "set",
            ],
        },
        "java" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "assert", "boolean", "break", "byte", "case", "catch", "char",
                "class", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double", "else", "enum",
                "extends", "final", "finally", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "implements",
                "import", "instanceof", "int", "interface", "long", "native", "new", "package",
                "private", "protected", "public", "return", "short", "static", "strictfp",
                "super", "switch", "synchronized", "this", "throw", "throws", "transient", "try",
                "void", "volatile", "while", "true", "false", "null", "var", "record", "yield",
                "sealed", "permits",
            ],
        },
        "c" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "auto", "break", "case", "char", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double",
                "else", "enum", "extern", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "inline", "int", "long",
                "register", "restrict", "return", "short", "signed", "sizeof", "static",
                "struct", "switch", "typedef", "union", "unsigned", "void", "volatile", "while",
            ],
        },
        "cpp" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "auto", "break", "case", "char", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double",
                "else", "enum", "extern", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "inline", "int", "long",
                "register", "return", "short", "signed", "sizeof", "static", "struct", "switch",
                "typedef", "union", "unsigned", "void", "volatile", "while", "class",
                "namespace", "template", "typename", "public", "private", "protected", "virtual",
                "friend", "this", "new", "delete", "try", "catch", "throw", "using", "operator",
                "explicit", "mutable", "bool", "true", "false", "nullptr", "constexpr",
                "decltype", "noexcept", "override", "final",
            ],
        },
        "csharp" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "as", "base", "bool", "break", "byte", "case", "catch", "char",
                "checked", "class", "const", "continue", "decimal", "default", "delegate", "do",
                "double", "else", "enum", "event", "explicit", "extern", "false", "finally",
                "fixed", "float", "for", "foreach", "goto", "if", "implicit", "in", "int",
                "interface", "internal", "is", "lock", "long", "namespace", "new", "null",
                "object", "operator", "out", "override", "params", "private", "protected",
                "public", "readonly", "ref", "return", "sbyte", "sealed", "short", "sizeof",
                "stackalloc", "static", "string", "struct", "switch", "this", "throw", "true",
                "try", "typeof", "uint", "ulong", "unchecked", "unsafe", "ushort", "using",
                "virtual", "void", "volatile", "while", "var", "async", "await", "yield",
                "nameof",
            ],
        },
        "go" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: true,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "break", "case", "chan", "const", "continue", "default", "defer", "else",
                "fallthrough", "for", "func", "go", "goto", "if", "import", "interface", "map",
                "package", "range", "return", "select", "struct", "switch", "type", "var",
                "true", "false", "nil", "iota",
            ],
        },
        "ruby" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "def", "end", "if", "elsif", "else", "unless", "while", "until", "for", "in",
                "do", "begin", "rescue", "ensure", "raise", "class", "module", "self", "nil",
                "true", "false", "and", "or", "not", "then", "yield", "return", "break", "next",
                "redo", "retry", "super", "require", "require_relative", "attr_accessor",
                "attr_reader", "attr_writer", "private", "public", "protected",
            ],
        },
        "php" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//", "#"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "and", "array", "as", "break", "callable", "case", "catch", "class",
                "clone", "const", "continue", "declare", "default", "do", "echo", "else",
                "elseif", "empty", "extends", "final", "finally", "fn", "for", "foreach",
                "function", "global", "goto", "if", "implements", "include", "include_once",
                "instanceof", "interface", "isset", "list", "match", "namespace", "new", "or",
                "print", "private", "protected", "public", "require", "require_once", "return",
                "static", "switch", "throw", "trait", "try", "unset", "use", "var", "while",
                "xor", "yield", "true", "false", "null", "self", "parent",
            ],
        },
        "bash" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "if", "then", "else", "elif", "fi", "for", "while", "until", "do", "done",
                "case", "esac", "function", "in", "return", "break", "continue", "local",
                "export", "readonly", "shift", "exit", "echo", "source",
            ],
        },
        "sql" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["--"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: true,
            keywords: &[
                "select", "from", "where", "insert", "into", "values", "update", "set",
                "delete", "create", "table", "alter", "drop", "join", "inner", "left", "right",
                "outer", "on", "group", "by", "order", "having", "as", "and", "or", "not",
                "null", "is", "in", "like", "limit", "offset", "distinct", "union", "all",
                "exists", "between", "case", "when", "then", "end", "primary", "key", "foreign",
                "references", "default", "index", "view", "trigger", "procedure", "function",
                "begin", "commit", "rollback",
            ],
        },
        "lua" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["--"],
            block_comments: &[("--[[", "]]")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "and", "break", "do", "else", "elseif", "end", "false", "for", "function", "if",
                "in", "local", "nil", "not", "or", "repeat", "return", "then", "true", "until",
                "while",
            ],
        },
        "kotlin" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "as", "break", "class", "continue", "do", "else", "false", "for", "fun", "if",
                "in", "interface", "is", "null", "object", "package", "return", "super", "this",
                "throw", "true", "try", "typealias", "val", "var", "when", "while", "by",
                "companion", "constructor", "data", "enum", "import", "init", "override",
                "private", "protected", "public", "sealed", "suspend",
            ],
        },
        "swift" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "class", "deinit", "enum", "extension", "func", "import", "init", "internal",
                "let", "operator", "private", "protocol", "public", "static", "struct",
                "subscript", "typealias", "var", "break", "case", "continue", "default", "do",
                "else", "fallthrough", "if", "in", "for", "return", "switch", "where", "while",
                "as", "false", "true", "guard", "nil", "self", "super", "throw", "try", "async",
                "await",
            ],
        },
        "css" | "scss" | "less" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "xml" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[("<!--", "-->")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "json" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["true", "false", "null"],
        },
        "yaml" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["true", "false", "null", "yes", "no"],
        },
        "ini" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#", ";"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "dockerfile" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: true,
            keywords: &[
                "from", "run", "cmd", "label", "expose", "env", "add", "copy", "entrypoint",
                "volume", "user", "workdir", "arg", "onbuild", "stopsignal", "healthcheck",
                "shell",
            ],
        },
        "makefile" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "graphql" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["query", "mutation", "subscription", "type", "input", "enum", "interface", "fragment", "on"],
        },
        // Language families without detailed specific rules: still
        // highlight comments/strings/numbers generically.
        "perl" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["my", "our", "sub", "if", "elsif", "else", "unless", "while", "for", "foreach", "return", "use", "package"],
        },
        "groovy" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "r" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["function", "if", "else", "for", "while", "repeat", "break", "next", "return", "TRUE", "FALSE", "NULL", "NA"],
        },
        "diff" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: false,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        // markdown, plaintext, cmake, vbnet, dos, powershell, etc:
        // no specific highlighting, plain but formatted text.
        _ => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: false,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
    }
}

/// Cache of compiled regexes (one per language actually encountered).
static REGEX_CACHE: Lazy<std::sync::Mutex<HashMap<String, Option<Regex>>>> =
    Lazy::new(|| std::sync::Mutex::new(HashMap::new()));

fn build_regex(rule: &LangRule) -> Option<Regex> {
    let mut comment_alts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    for (start, end) in rule.block_comments {
        comment_alts.push(format!(
            "(?s:{}.*?{})",
            regex::escape(start),
            regex::escape(end)
        ));
    }
    for prefix in rule.line_comments {
        comment_alts.push(format!("{}[^\n]*", regex::escape(prefix)));
    }

    let mut string_alts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    if rule.triple_quote {
        string_alts.push(r#"(?s:"""(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*?""")"#.to_string());
        string_alts.push(r#"(?s:'''(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*?''')"#.to_string());
    }
    if rule.strings {
        string_alts.push(r#""(?:[^"\\\n]|\\.)*""#.to_string());
        string_alts.push(r#"'(?:[^'\\\n]|\\.)*'"#.to_string());
    }
    if rule.backtick {
        string_alts.push(r"(?s:`(?:[^`\\]|\\.)*`)".to_string());
    }

    let number_pat = r"\b0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+\b|\b\d+\.\d+(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)?\b|\b\d+\b".to_string();

    let mut keyword_alt = String::new();
    if !rule.keywords.is_empty() {
        let escaped: Vec<String> = rule.keywords.iter().map(|k| regex::escape(k)).collect();
        let joined = escaped.join("|");
        keyword_alt = if rule.case_insensitive_keywords {
            format!("(?i:\\b(?:{})\\b)", joined)
        } else {
            format!("\\b(?:{})\\b", joined)
        };
    }

    let mut parts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    if !comment_alts.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<comment>{})", comment_alts.join("|")));
    }
    if !string_alts.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<string>{})", string_alts.join("|")));
    }
    parts.push(format!("(?P<number>{})", number_pat));
    if !keyword_alt.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<keyword>{})", keyword_alt));
    }

    if parts.is_empty() {
        return None;
    }

    Regex::new(&parts.join("|")).ok()
}

fn escape_html(s: &str) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len());
    for c in s.chars() {
        match c {
            '&' => out.push_str("&amp;"),
            '<' => out.push_str("&lt;"),
            '>' => out.push_str("&gt;"),
            '"' => out.push_str("&quot;"),
            '\'' => out.push_str("&#39;"),
            _ => out.push(c),
        }
    }
    out
}

/// Highlights the source code and returns HTML that's already escaped
/// and ready to insert inside a `<pre><code>...</code></pre>`.
/// No JavaScript involved: all the work happens here, in Rust,
/// at file-generation time.
pub fn highlight_code(content: &str, lang: &str) -> String {
    let rule = rule_for(lang);

    let regex_opt = {
        let mut cache = REGEX_CACHE.lock().unwrap();
        cache
            .entry(lang.to_string())
            .or_insert_with(|| build_regex(&rule))
            .clone()
    };

    let Some(re) = regex_opt else {
        return escape_html(content);
    };

    let mut out = String::with_capacity(content.len() + content.len() / 4);
    let mut last = 0;

    for caps in re.captures_iter(content) {
        let m = caps.get(0).unwrap();
        out.push_str(&escape_html(&content[last..m.start()]));

        let class = if caps.name("comment").is_some() {
            "c"
        } else if caps.name("string").is_some() {
            "s"
        } else if caps.name("number").is_some() {
            "n"
        } else if caps.name("keyword").is_some() {
            "k"
        } else {
            ""
        };

        let escaped_match = escape_html(m.as_str());
        if class.is_empty() {
            out.push_str(&escaped_match);
        } else {
            out.push_str(&format!("<span class=\"{}\">{}</span>", class, escaped_match));
        }
        last = m.end();
    }
    out.push_str(&escape_html(&content[last..]));
    out
}