RE: Flex help anyone ?

[Urdaneta, Alfonso E (N-Summitt Technologies)]

> In the language I'm trying to parse - its permissible to 
> embed quotes within a string if you double up..
> 
> so :
> 
>       "Hello ""World"" would be ok"
> 
> Obviously - I'm getting this back as three strings ("Hello " 
> , "World"  & "would be ok") which is messing up the parser...
> 
> 
> Any ideas ?

I'm sure that a regexp guru (which I am most certatinly not) could come
up with something to do what you want automatically in flex, but I think
that your task would be easier accomplished using start conditions.   

Theres a couple of samples for dealing with C comments which are
applicable to your situation.

http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/manual/html_mono/flex.html#SEC11

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alfonso e. urdaneta

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