Re: comments in lexical definitions

[John W. Millaway]

> > > I'm missing the possibility to include comments in lexical definition

Flex does allow comments everywhere you could possibly need them. This
discussion suggests a failure in the flex docs to make the syntax clear. What's
the trick, then? 

1. Use traditional C comments, not '//' comments.
2. INDENT THE COMMENT.

-John
(Exhaustive example follows)

%{
    /* 1  */
%}
    /*  2  */
%option reentrant
%x STATE_X

%%
   /* 3 */
ruleA    /* 4 */ { /* 5 */}
ruleB    /* 6 */ ECHO; /* 7 */
   /* 8 */
<STATE_X>{
ruleC   ECHO;
   /* 9 */
ruleD   ECHO;
}

%%
/* 10 */



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