Re: Non-greedy wildcard possible? (Long)

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Hans Aberg <address@hidden>:
>
> At 17:41 +0200 2004/05/15, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> >I'm working on a project (atox.sf.net) where I want to use Bison to
> >add markup to plain text. I need a rule to represent the plain text
> >segments (between the markup tokens) and that's proving a challenge.
> 
> Normally, this is done by the lexer, sending back say a token "text". Why
> is you not doing it that way?

Because what tokens are significant (as opposed to "plain text")
is described by a user-specified context-free grammar.

>   Hans Aberg

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