Provide ability to auto-ignore certain types of content

[TaoK]

(eg replace before/after with an innocuous pattern?)

An example of what Kristijan Vogrincic would like to be able to treat as a normal identifier, without having to quote it:

select * from ~T~somename~T~

This type of request typically comes about because the T-SQL is not ready-to-run, it is being passed through some templating engine which replaces things (identifiers, constants) and uses some invalid T-SQL constructs to identify where the replacements should happen.

See also issue #92

[TaoK]

One approach that could work here, is to enable the user to define an "identifier regex pattern", whereby any matches in the text are automatically captured/isolated as a special kind of string (like a quoted identifier in square brackets).

I can't think off the top of my head what types of restrictions or safety would need to be included (eg to avoid parsing failures due to over-eager regex expressions), but it should be doable.