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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: LEX rule, anyone???
Message-ID: <625@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 89 22:57:24 GMT
References: <601@vice2utc.chalmers.se> <21108@mimsy.umd.edu> <364@linqdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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In article <364@linqdev.UUCP> mark@linqdev.UUCP () writes:
>...way of handling C comments...
>
>"/*"        {
>			do  {
>				yytext[0] = yytext[1];
>				if( !( yytext[1] = input() ) )
>					yyerror( 
>					"EOF in comment.  Missing \"*/\"." );
>				} while( yytext[0] != '*' || yytext[1] != '/' );
>			}

Too bad it doesn't work.  Try "/*/*/" as input.  I think it will work if you
clear yytext[1] before the do-while loop.
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu