Possible lex bug?

masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:49:29 GMT

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From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:49:29 GMT
Keywords: lex, errors, comment

Has anyone else come across the following possible bug in lex? I'd
like to ignore certain characters, including vertical tab (\v,
^K, \013, etc.) When I included the line


[ \v\f\r\t] ;


in the source file, vertical tabs fell through. However,


[ ^K\f\r\t] ;


or


[ \013\f\r\t] ;


works. I'm not thrilled about this, though, because it means
hard-coding a control character or ASCII code.


I'm running Sun's version of lex on a Sparc-2, in case it makes a
difference, but another site has reported the same problem. I don't
know what equipment they have there.


Thanks for any help!


- Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
[AT&T lex has a lot of bugs, I can't say I'm surprised to hear about
another one. Flex handles it correctly. -John]
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