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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: flex escape sequences
Message-ID: <1820@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 13:04:27 GMT
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Keywords: flex


Flex is great, and I'm really happy to have it.  Here's a little
incompatibility with lex that I ran across.  Would you expect
the following flex statment to match a ^ character?  (There
are 2 tabs after the pattern.)

\^		printf("I saw a hat.");

It doesn't -- it matches a tab character instead.
	Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu