Re: Flex regular expression problem

"Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>
31 Aug 2005 00:31:19 -0400

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From: "Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 31 Aug 2005 00:31:19 -0400
Organization: http://groups.google.com
References: 05-08-07905-08-088
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 31 Aug 2005 00:31:19 EDT

> "([^"\\\r\n]*(\\.[^"\\\r\n]*)*)".
>
> Here the first sub-expression delivers the text inside of the double
> qotes. This expression is optimized according to Friedl's scheme (see
> the help file of the TextTransformer).


Flex uses a DFA, so you do not really need optimization and you can do
simply


"(\\.|[^"\\\r\n])*"


Paolo


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