Re: lex question

Mina Doroudi wrote:
> I am writing a parser with lex. I have some problems:
> In the definition section I define a whole bunch of stuff and I also
> used them to define other things.
> So I have
> X [something]
> and I want Y to be anything but X so when I define it like:
> Y [^{X}] it only exclude the characters '{' , '}' ,and X
> I can't find a way to exclude the definitions and use them in
> other definitions.


You're right, the obvious way doesn't work:
[{X}] actionX();
[^{X}] actionNotX();


As Nathan says, the solution is straightforward if you have only two
tokens - X and not-X. If that's not your problem, then I think more
context is required for me (at least) to help.


> Also I'm trying to set rules for Oct, but lex doesn't let me logical ORs them
> together. and I can't do ranging either ([\001-\006])


As Nathan implies, the following patterns all work with flex (I
checked):
[\1-\6] action();
[\1\2\3] action();
"\1"|"\2"|"\3" action();


> any Idea how to parse text with Oct?


I'm not familiar with Oct. Can you point me to a URL?
[Octal characters, I thought. -John]

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