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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: a lex question
Message-ID: <479@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 14:01:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 14:01:06 1984
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> From: anderson@uwvax.UUCP
> Message-ID: <236@uwvax.ARPA>
> Date: Wed, 2-May-84 21:48:40 PDT
> 
> The following "lex" expression is supposed to accept /* ... */ style
> comments.  It doesn't quite work... it recognizes the comment, but then
> the closing / seems to be processed again (resulting in a syntax error).
> 
> "/*"([^*]|("*"/[^/]))*"*/"
                X

Unless I'm missing something as well, it looks like the slash above the "X"
is extra.  Is this a typo?  Or is it present in the original stuff?

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