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https://github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight

Go package for syntax highlighting of code
https://github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight

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# syntaxhighlight

Package syntaxhighlight provides syntax highlighting for code. It currently uses a language-independent lexer and performs decently on JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, and C.

The main [`AsHTML(src []byte) ([]byte, error)`](https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight@master/.GoPackage/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight/.def/AsHTML) function outputs HTML that uses the same CSS classes as [google-code-prettify](https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/), so any stylesheets for that should also work with this package.

**[Documentation on Sourcegraph](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight)**

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight)
[![status](https://sourcegraph.com/api/repos/github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight/badges/status.png)](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight)

## Installation

```
go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight
```
First you should install the golang evironment, you can download it [here](https://golang.org/dl) or you can follow the [getting started](https://golang.org/doc/install)

Remember you should set the environment variables correctly (GOPATH and PATH)

## Example usage

The function [`AsHTML(src []byte, options ...Option) ([]byte, error)`](https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight@master/.GoPackage/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight/.def/AsHTML) returns an HTML-highlighted version of `src`. The input source code can be in any language; the lexer is language independent. An `OrderedList()` option can be passed to produce an `

    ...
`-wrapped list to display line numbers.

```go
package syntaxhighlight_test

import (
"fmt"
"os"

"github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight"
)

func Example() {
src := []byte(`
/* hello, world! */
var a = 3;

// b is a cool function
function b() {
return 7;
}`)

highlighted, err := syntaxhighlight.AsHTML(src)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}

fmt.Println(string(highlighted))

// Output:
// /* hello, world! */
// var a = 3;
//
// // b is a cool function
// function b() {
// return 7;
// }
}
```

## Contributors

* [Quinn Slack](https://sourcegraph.com/sqs)

Contributions are welcome! Submit a pull request on GitHub.