comments in lex
Ray Reeves
ray at emacs.uucp
Tue Jun 25 22:45:50 AEST 1985
I'm new to lex, and the first thing I tried wouldn't fly!
How do you recognise a PL/1 style comment?
This is what I did:
startcom \/\*
endcom \*\/
%%
{startcom}[^{endcom}]{endcom} printf("%s","comment")
But negation doesn't take conjunctions, even when packaged like this.
What should I do?
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