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Re: Suppress copying characters to yytext?
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
Subject: |
Re: Suppress copying characters to yytext? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) |
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Dave Dutcher wrote:
> Second, I would like to be able to have Flex use certain characters in a
> regular expression to match the expression but suppress copying the
> characters to yytext.
You can do that with a start condition and trailing context rules. I.e.
roughly like this:
<INITIAL>\" BEGIN(IN_STRING)
<IN_STRING>[^\n]*/\" {
/* yytext is the interior of the string, now */
BEGIN(INITIAL)
}
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Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.