don't care data in yacc

Hi All,


I was wondering is there a way in yacc/bison to enter a don't care state for
a grammar without having to completely specify every token I don't care
about.


for example, say I wanted to ignore everything after the
'WHERE' portion of a SQL SELECT statement:


SELECT ~~specified~~ FROM ~~specified~~ WHERE ~IGNORE THIS~


I have written a bison grammar to parse SELECT statements. The
'~~specified~~' portions of the about example are specified in that
grammar. My problem is that I don't really care about the '~IGNORE THIS~'
and I don't know the best way to tell my grammar this. This wouldn't be a
problem, if I stopped parsing as soon as I hit the WHERE, but I could have
multiple SELECT statements in a file and I also have to have the ability to
ignore subquery SELECT which may show up in the WHERE clause.


Thanks, in advance,


Ferrol
[I'd use lexical hackery to tell the lexer to skip ahead until it hit an
end of ignore section marker. -John]


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