How do I handle multiple line quoted strings in fLex?

I wan't to be able to handle multiple line strings in flex, where I return
one token to bison of that string minus the quotes. I have a pattern such
as this that currently works, with a few snags...


\"[^\"]*\" { yyval.string = strdup(yytext[yyleng]); RETURN STRING }


This doen't get rid of the " nor does it supply a method of counting the
current line numbers since the \n rule that I have will not get executed.


I have thought about makeing a STRING state that when it encounters the
first " I initialize a state that accepts everything besides a \n, I
discard the \n since I don't want them in my string anyway, increase my
linecounter and then strcat the yytext to a temp buffer till I get the
closeing ".


If anyone has a better idea or the one I described above working I would
really appreciate it.


Thanks,


Tim
[I'd do what you suggest, use the STRING state to recognize a line at
a time and buffer up the string myself, since it's unwise to expect
lex to handle enormous single tokens. -John]






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