RE: Somewhat newbie question: multiple lines in one token?

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Aberg [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 3:50 AM
> To: Robert Collins

Thank you Hans & CrampyMan for your input. Your assistance allowed me to
isolate the problem.

I'm now happily using a single lex state to manage the multiple line
entries:

%x mlinestate

%%

"multipleline:" BEGIN(mlinestate);return MLINETAG;
<mlinestate>[^\n]*      return STRING;
<mlinestate>\n          return NL;
<mlinestate>\n+         BEGIN(INITIAL);return PARAGRAPH; 

And it works great. The single \n rule is what I was missing before
(oops!).

Cheers,
Rob