Re: error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 27, 2009, at 6:12 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 26-Dec-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> | 
> | > On Dec 25, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> | > 
> | >> Is anyone else seeing this?
> | >> 
> | >> ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 
> 'txt');"
> | >> warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2
> | >> error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2
> | >> parse error near line 164 of file 
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/set/unique.m
> 
> The only way I can see this happening is if text_yyinput returns 0,
> which can only happen if yyinput returns 0, which should only be
> possible if flex's internal buffer somehow has an ASCII nul character
> in it.  I don't see how that can happen, and as I can't reproduce this
> problem, you will need to do some debugging to see what the contents
> of the flex buffer is and try to find out why it is incorrect.
> 
> jwe


At the moment I have no insight ... but I'll start studying the problem.

Ben